This is an analysis of the poem The Letter L.-Present that begins with:

Present.
A meadow where the grass was deep,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbc dede fgfX fdfd aaaa haha cdcX ffff fifi fgfg ieie ijij afaf bjbj kjkj cLcl fafa emXm dcdc nfnf odod dada cpcj adad qeqX cLcl lelX fXfX acac bXXc cici jaja fjfj lfef rjrX ffXf isis fnfX aeae icic jfjf tkuk dede Xmim ffff ajaX nfnf eded cjcj keke cfc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 01 01110111 11110001 01010101 0101 01111001 01110101 110100101 1111 11010111 101011101 11110101 0100 11010101 11001101 11010101 0101 11110101 11110111 111100111 1101 11110101 11011101 11110111 1111 11111101 11111101 11010101 01010 11110101 01011011 11110101 1101 11010111 11010101 10011011 0101 110100101 11010101 01010101 1110 11110101 11100101 11110001 0101 10110101 11111111 111111111 1101 10110101 01111101 01010001 0101 11110011 01011101 11010001 1101 11010001 01010111 10010001 1011 11111101 11111001 01010101 1101 10010101 01000101 01011101 0101 11110111 11011001 110010000 0101 10111101 01001101 01010101 0101 11010011 01001101 011101000 0101 10110101 010010001 01011111 1101 11111111 11110111 10001101 1101 11101111 11111100 11101101 1101 11010110 01110101 11010101 1001 11010101 11001101 11010111 0111 111111101 11111001 11110101 1101 10010001 11010111 11111101 1100 110110101 01011101 110101011 1001 11010101 11111101 11111100 01001 100101001 110101100 10111101 1101 11111101 11110111 01110101 1111 11110011 11111101 11001101 1101 11011101 01010111 10110101 1111 11011101 11000111 01011101 1101 11000111 11001111 10110001 1010 01011111 01000101 01010100 0101 01000101 01010101 11011101 0101 01011101 11110111 11101111 1101 11111001 01110101 11010101 0101 11110101 01110101 10010100 0101 100011101 01100111 11110101 1101 11010101 01011101 11011100 1111 11010101 11110000 11010111 11000 111101000 10110001 110010101 1111 010010101 11010101 01000111 0101 11011001 11011001 11011001 1101 11011111 01010101 11010100 1111 11110101 11101011 11011101 1101 11110101 01010101 111100001 1111 11010101 11010100 11100101 1101 11011101 01010101 10110111 1011 10110111 11010111 11011101 1101 01010100 11110101 01010100 1101 01011101 11001101 01011101 0100 01111011 11000101 11110101 1101 11011101 01011111 11011101 0101 1100011000 01010101 01010111 0101 01011001 11010111 10111001 0101 11010111 01000101 11011111 0101 11111111 110101001 11110101 0100 11010001 11101101 11010111 0101 11010101 10111101 0011100 11010 11011100 01011101 11011111 1101 01110111 11010011 11110101 1101 11001101 010010001 01010101 0101 11110101 01010111 11101001 0011 01001111 11010111 01010101 1101 11000111 11010101 01011101 1101 1101110010 01010101 01110101 1101 11011011 11011111 11010111 1110 111100110 111100101 11010101 11110 111100110 11010101 11110001 1011 11010011 01000101 11111110 1111 10110101 01011111 11001101 1001 11111101 110101001 11110101 1111 11011101 11110101 11111101 1101 11111111 100110010 11011111 01110 11111111 010010111 11011101 1101 110011101 01010101 11111101 1101 01011111 11110001 11110001 1101 01100101 11010011 111101010 0111 11010101 110010101 11011111 0101
  • Amount of stanzas: 83
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 329
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; and, had, it, ', she, of, his, with, that, or, so are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, a, she, what, or, so, 'o are repeated.

    The author used the same words and, 'i, a, she, if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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