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Audley Court
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  • Rhyme scheme: a bca a dbaabef XgXhXXif jjbjdkikajlhibfamjmm Xjenohknbjinkjfn fijjkl dbfbliagfXbd hdhncianXodfXbXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,1,7,8,20,16,6,12,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101 0101111101 1111011111 1101 111101 1101110101 0100010101 0101100001 1100010111 1101110101 1101010001 0101110101 1101011101 01110111001 0111010111 0101011111 01010101000 11010001001 01010010101 1101000101 1101010101 0101010111 1101011101 1111010101 11110111001 1100010101 0101100101 0101000101 1111111111 1111010111 1101110011 0101111101 1101011101 0101011001 0111010101 1101011111 1101010101 0101011101 1101010101 0111010111 1111111100 0111000101 1101001101 1111111111 1111110101 1101010111 1101011101 1101111111 1101101111 0101111101 1111110001 0111111111 1111110101 1111011101 1111100101 1001111111 1101110101 1100010101 1101111101 011010111 1001010010 1101110111 1101011101 1101001101 1101010101 1101001001 01001011111 1111011110 1101110101 1101110101 1101110101 1111011110 0100010101 1101011101 1111010101 0101110101 1111110101 1001110011 0101011101 0111110111 1101010111 0101010101 1001010111 0100011111 0101010101 0111011101 01110101010 1101010001 0111010110 1101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 383
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and, d, who, i, arm are repeated.

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

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

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