This is an analysis of the poem Eloisa To Abelard that begins with:

In these deep solitudes and awful cells,
Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbcc Xdaaaaaa aaeeffeebbee XaggddXhcccc eeiigXhh jjddaabbkk ccddiillmmeeii ddaaccmmaaeekkmmiinnbbbbii aaddeebb iikkkkddhhkkhhiibbaadd gXddddaaXXaaddbbiiaaioddmmddaXaaddaaaaeeaa iieeee eeXgaabbhhXpbbpXmmeebbbbddhhii bbddfXXXaaaallii iiiiiibbmmaahhiiaah
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,12,12,8,10,14,26,8,22,42,6,30,16,26,8,6,14,12,14,14,20,6,10,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 01110001101 1101010101 1101010101 1101000101 1111010101 1111010101 1111010001 101011101 11011101000 1111010101 1011011101 1101010101 1101110101 0101010111 011010111 0110110101 0101110101 0101110001 1101110111 11110100101 1111011101 11001111101 1111011101 1111011101 1011110011 1101011111 1111010101 1111010101 11110100110 1111010111 1111011101 1101110001 11011001111 11001010101 11011101100 1101010001 1101110011 1001010101 110101010101 1101010111 1111111111 1011110101 1111010101 1011001111 1111111111 1101110101 11001110101 0111011111 1111011101 1111011111 111101111 1101011101 1111111101 10011100010 0101010101 0101111101 1011010101 1101010001 1111011111 1101110101 1101101101 11010011101 1101100101 1101000101 1011110111 1101110011 0111111101 1111111101 1101010111 1111011101 1101010111 1100111111 1111010111 1111111111 1111110101 1011100101 1111010101 1001110001 0111011101 1111011101 01011101010 1101000101 1101010101 1101111101 1111011101 0101011101 1101011101 1111000111 0101010111 1111011101 1101111101 1101001101 1101010101 1101110001 1111100101 111101100001 0101011110 1101010011 0111110101 0101011101 1111000101 01010101001 01001110101 0111010001 1111111101 1111010101 1101111101 1101110111 1101111101 1101110111 1011110101 0111010111 1101010001 1101010111 1101110111 1101110111 1111110111 1011111111 1011110111 1111111001 11111000111 1101010011 1111101101 1111111101 1101110101 0101011101 1011110101 1111110011 1111110111 1011110011 0011010111 1101011101 1111010101 1101110001 1101010101 11010111001 1101110101 1101011001 1111110011 1101000101 0111110101 1111010101 1101010101 1011010101 1101010101 1101010101 1111010101 11110101001 1101010111 1101010100 1111110101 1111010101 1111010101 1111010111 01011101101 1111000101 0101110101 01110001001 0101110101 0111000101 1111110101 1101010101 11001111101 11010110101 1101011101 0111010101 0101010101 1101110101 1001000101 1101010101 1111010111 1111010101 1101110101 1111111101 1101010101 1111110101 1101010101 0101010111 0111110111 1001001001 1111010001 11110110010 1101110111 1101010101 1111110101 0111010101 1101111110 1101111100 0101010101 1101010001 1111011101 111010101110 1011000101 1101010001 0101010001 1111111111 1101010101 1101011101 1101010101 0101111101 11110111110 111111001010 1111110001 0111111111 1111010111 0111010101 1100010101 0101010101 0101100101 1101011101 11111101001 100010111110 01001010101 1101111101 1101001001 1101010101 10110010101 1101010101 1001010101 101101001 0101011101 1101000101 1101110101 11010000101 11010111001 1001110101 1101110101 11110100101 1111001101 1101010101 0101010101 11011100101 11111110111 1111011101 1111111111 0101110111 1101011111 1111010101 0111111101 1101010101 0111101101 1101111101 11110101101 11111101001 1011110001 1101111101 1111011101 1101011101 1101010101 0101010101 1101110101 1111011111 1101110101 1101010101 1101000110 11110010101 1100111101 0101011101 1011010001 111110101 1101011111 01011111001 11011001111 0101011101 1001010101 1111110011 1101010111 1101011111 1111010101 0101111101 1001010101 1101010101 1101110101 1101010111 0101110101 1101110101 1101010111 11001110011 11010000111 1101010111 1011110111 0110010111 1011010101 1111010001 1111110111 1111010011 1111000101 0101111011 1111111101 1101111101 1111111101 1111011111 1111110001 01011110011 1111011111 1101010101 1101110101 01010001101 1101110001 1111010100 1011110001 0111100101 100110101 1111010001 0111100101 1111010101 1111010101 0101110101 1010100011101 10101110101 1110110111 1101110101 1101000101 1101011101 1101010101 111101110100 11110111001 0101110101 1011011111 1101011001 1100011101 1111000101 1111011111 1111111101 1101010111 01010100011 0101011101 1111110101 111110101 0001110111 1011010101 1011010011 11010111010 1111000111 1111001101 1111111111 1111111101 1101111111 0101011101 1101110111 0101110101 1101100111 1111111101 1111010111 11011111110 1001011111 0101110101 010001111001 10011011111 1101011101 11010100101 101110111110 00110111001 1101010101 0111010101 1101111101 1001110101 1101111010 1101110111 0110000101 0110010001 1101110111 1010111111 1111110101 0111011101 1111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 644
  • Average number of words per stanza: 116
  • Amount of lines: 366
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; yet, nor, in, some, they, i, and, her, thy, my, that, so, how, often, but, for, of, as, not, me, come, see are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words why, ye, nor, there, not, still, the, i, now, how, for, far, thy, while, take, see are repeated.

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

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