This is an analysis of the poem To E. Fitzgerald: Tiresias that begins with:

OLD FITZ, who from your suburb grange,
Where once I tarried for a while,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdcecefgXXchchicicfgfgcdcdhbhbjcjcklklhXhcjijieeee X gmiinfhekeb kggcghdchhoehdacfghk fpcieeqnqgccpfeigrXebhgfcdfgXchckpgehiXekhbbheesdcgbXhechdkokffetjfuhdehceX dheXfXXdXXeXfkqeubgcqegfdkXqppehdgelemicieegmmfqirajehgklmghfcgtgcgbfelkeepes Xgsgbf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 56,1,11,20,75,77,32,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11101101 11110101 11010101 11000101 11111111 011100101 11110111 11110111 11111101 10111101 11010111 11010101 11111111 11111111 11001000 1111101100 11110101 01010101 1101110001 11110101 11111101 11010101 11110111 11010111 11110101 11010111 01111101 010100101 01110111 01011111 11011101 11110101 11111101 01010101 01010001 11011101 11011101 11010011 01010101 11100101 11011111 11111101 111101001 111111001 11110111 01011111 01010101 01010101 110100101 11101101 11110111 11011101 01010101 10110101 11110011 11110011 100 1110100001 110111101 1011010111 1111111101 0101110111 0101010101 1101010101 1101010001 1101010101 1100011101 011110101 0101010101 1101011111 0100101111 11010100001 01011100101 0111 011101 1111111101 1101011111 1101001111 11010111101 1111010111 1101010101 10110010111 0100010001 1101111011 1101010001 0111010101 110110001 1101011101 0101010001 1111011111 0011010111 0101101111 1100111101 100010101001 1100010101 1001010111 101010001 01011100101 0101110111 01010100101 1001010101 1101010101 1001011101 0101111111 1101110111 100001111111 110111111000 1001010111 0101010101 0111011101 0111010101 010010101101 1100010111 0100100001 11011110001 0101110011 1111110101 110011101101 1100011101 1100101011 1111110111 1111110111 0111010101 11010101010 0101111101 1111111101 0101110101 0100110111 1101010101 1101010001 1110010001 1101010001 1100010001 01011100111 1111010011 11110101010 0111010100 0101000101 1111110111 01110011101 1101010110 01 1011011111 1101010011 101100101 0011110111 1001111111 1101110111 11011110101 11110101001 1101001101 11010101010 011101011 0101010101 11010111011 1111000100 11001011001 0101010101 11010100001 1100110001 1101011001 1001110111 1101010 11101 1101110111 1011001101 0100111100 010111111 01110100000 1101011101 0101110111 110101010100 1111110111 0101000101 1011010100 111101110001 1010011111 1111011101 1001100111 101010010101 1001011111 1101010101 1110110111 11010010101 0100010111 1011110111 0011110100 1000011000 1111011011 1101010100 1101001101 11011111001 1001011111 010011101001 011010101 1001110101 0111111111 110101 0101 1111110101 1111111101 11010101111 0101010101 0101010111 1001011101 1101011111 1001010111 0101011101 1001111101 1101110101 0101111101 0111011111 1101000111 0111010101 1101010101 0101010101 1111010101 1111 101111 11110100101 101101 0101 1111110101 1001010 1111111010011 1100010101 1101110101 010001111 11010100101 1101011101 01111101001 0101011101 010010101001 0111011101 0111010101 0101000101 01011100101 1100010011 0111110001 11110111010 10111110100 11110111 101101010 010111001 11010101 01110101 010001001 11110101 11010101 11010001 00111101 11010101 110111011 11011101 01010101 01010101 11010111 01010101 11000101 01010101 11111111 01110100 11111101 11011101 0100101010 11011101 110111010 01010101 11011101 110100001 11010100 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1660
  • Average number of words per stanza: 252
  • Amount of lines: 274
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, in, her, golden, for, their, to, one, far, night are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, beyond are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines all, these are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase gone connects the lines.

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