This is an analysis of the poem Into The Silent Land that begins with:

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'Oh for a pen of light, a tongue of fire,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bccbdcdeecdfccffdgfddggfeef fefXX hiihdXdhh cjjchjhcc fkkf hkhff lmaaXaddehedhdfmfmXnn foXo fooddhhddmmkckhdXchmmmm agaagpj Xjpmfmff baeba daddA oaooA mpcXX cXefefoohhdhfffffX l fafahchhc ohohocooc ofofqcqqc X ooooofof oommo hoddobcboocfaddffa ooiiii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,27,5,9,9,4,5,21,4,23,7,8,5,5,5,5,18,1,9,9,9,1,8,5,18,7,17,14,6,13,1,8,8,8,8,4,4,6,6,6,6,6,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 11010101010 11001110101 0101011111 10010101010 11001110011 1111010101 1111101101 1100011101 1100011101 010010001 1101110101 1100110101 1111110101 11010011101 0101010001 0101110111 1111010111 1100110001 1110010011 1111010101 1101111101 1101000111 1101000101 1101110011 0111011101 11110001001 1011110101 10110100101 11010100111 0111010101 1001001110 1100101110101 1101010111 1101100111 1100010111 1001011101 0101001111 1010110111 11111101001 0111110101 0111001110111 1101010101 1111110101 1011010101 1011011001 1101000101 1011000101 0101010111 0101011111 110111110101 1111110101 0101110101 0101010101 1101100101 1111011101 0101101001 1101010111 01110101001 011111110101 1101110100 1111011111 1011010101 1101110111 0100110100 11010010101 11010010011 10011100101 1101111101 1101111101 1101010101 0101010101 1011010001 0101010101 01010101 11010101 1101010101 11111100 11010011000 01011101 110101110111 11111011010 1111111101 11010010100 0101011101 01111101010 100101 11010101001 0111110111 1101110101 0101010101 1101010101 01010101 0111110111 10011100100 1001000101 1101010111 0101010001 0101010101 1110100111 0101000101 10111101010 1001001111 110100111 0100010101 1011111101 110110111 101111000101 0101111101 0101111101 10011010101 1111010101 1001110101 1100010011 0101000101 0011010111 1001001101 0100011101 1101101101 01010010001 0101010110 1011010001 010011110101 11001010 1100101 011001 0100110 011101 11001010 1100101 1101010 10101010 011101 01001010 11001101 1111010 0111010 011101 1101011101 0101001001 0110010001 111100110 110100101001 1101001101 1111110100 11110111 10010101 01110111 10110111 0101011101 110101011001 0111010101 11001011101 011101001 1011010101 11010101 10010101 1100 110101 11010101 0100101001110 110100 10101001 1010101 1111101001 110101 101011 1110101 110100101 111010111 110101 11101001 1100111 110101101 010101 110101 1110101 010101101 1010110101 011101 11111001 10101101 111100101 0101001 111101 101101 1110101101 1010101101 110101 1 0100100101 111101101 110101101 100100101 1011000101 110010101 1010111 010100101 11101001 1001001 111001 01001 1101001 11101001 11001001 01111 10101 0101101 010110010 11001001 10111001010 11001 11101 0101101 01111001 11101001 11111 10101 11101 00101 10100101 0100100101 111101101 11011 11111 1101101101 1101011001 1101101101 1010100101 01110100 0010010101 0100100111 10011111 0010101001 1100101101 111010101 101001 11011 1100100101 0010100101 100101101010 11101001010 10110111101 101011001000 1001100100 111100101 110100101 1101100101 110010101 1010101 00110101 0010011111 10010101 11110101 101100101 10110101 11010111 11011111 110101101 111101010 110111010 110001001 01011111 1010111101 111011101 0101110101 11010101 01010101 111101 010111 110100 1011101 11110100 011111 010101 111111 01011101 110101 0100101 01011010 0101101 1101010 1100101 0111010 0100101 1110111 10100101 01101110 11011011 1101100 1100101 0101110 1101001 11111010 0100101 01011110 1110111 1101110 10100101 10011010 11001001 101001010 0100101 11001110 0110101 01111010 0100101 1101010 1110111 11011110 1101101 11001010 1101001 11101100 1101001 11101010 1100101 11011010 1101101 110010 110011 1101010101 110101 010111 1001000111 011111 010101 0001001101 110101 010101 1100111111 110100 111111 1011010101 000101 111111 01010100010 101101 110111 0011001011 110101 110101 1001110101 010101 110101 11110011101 110101 101101 0111000111 01 1111101 1010101 1100011 1010011 1110101 1110001 1110111 0010111 1010100 1010101 1010101 1010101 1001101 1110101 10010111 1011101 1111101 1000101 1110111 1110001 1011111 1111111 1010111 1000101 1111111 1010101 1011101 11100100 1110100 1011111 0010101 1010101 1011101 1010111 10101010 10011101 11101100 1001101 1011101 1011101 0110111 1011101 1110101 1010101 11111010 0110001 1111101 0010101 1010101 10101010 10111110 1110101 1110111 1000101 10100001 1110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 61
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 411
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; one, of, to, and, he, love's, in, as, like are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, like, and, of, a, as, no, cannot are repeated.

    The author used the same words like, we, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same words thee, helm, pane at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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

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