This is an analysis of The Height Of The Ridiculous by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb dccc aaca bceX efXf bdXd deXeXcfef
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11111101 010101 111100111 100100 10111101 111111 010001001 010111 11110111 110101 01010111 100101 1000100101 1011001 11010101 1000010010 11010111 111101 10111101 110101 11010111 110101 11010101 110101 01110001 010101 01111101 110001 11110101 111101 11110101 110111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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Anadiplosis
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