This is an analysis of the poem Aspirants Three that begins with:

DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
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  • Rhyme scheme: a bc deb cf gc h I jdhgkhbjlhmdnekjlm a cXgdccgikehgonjipimlo I okmjX hj j cjbXhjdldglllXqj a d I hjh j djXc I rbhhoqimhdgkbelkdd c didilli hkhkllk a jdgnpjdkpp j k a jjradkphkk j i I dj a mgnknnjagdljj i c rorkddhhhho h g hhXjg jjjg kkkg jjjllmmkk h i
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,3,2,2,1,1,18,1,21,1,5,2,1,16,1,1,1,3,1,4,1,18,1,7,7,1,10,1,1,1,10,1,1,1,2,1,13,1,1,11,1,1,5,4,4,9,1,1,8,1,1,1,15,1,9,1,9,1,8,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 100010 1 01010010 1 1111 10010 010 0100101010 10100 01010011001010 100100111110 01 0001010111 0101010101 01011100111 1111010100 1101000111 1101110101 1111010111 1011000101 1101010111 1101010011 0111001101 1001010001 10011 1010001 11111 1001011111 1101110111 1101111101 10 1111110101 0111010101 0111001101 1111010011 1101000101 11010001010 11000100 101 11 1011010111 0011010101 11010101101 1100010111 1101011101 1100010111 1101010111 1111111111 0011111100 0111011111 1101101111 10110100 01 10 1111110101 1100011101 0101111100 111100 111110101101 01010100101 1 11111 0101100101 1101011111 1101001100 1111001 1011001111 0101011101 1101010111 1100111101 1100110101 0111000101 1001110111 0101111111 1101011101 11010001001 11010001011 10 01 01 11010111 0100010001 1110 1 111101 1101010001 0100010110 11010101111 01 1101010111 1100111111 1101010001 0101010101 1001110101 1001110111 1101110100 1111110101 1111010111 1101010101 1111001101 0111110111 1011101101 1101010111 0101000111 0101010101 010111001101 1100011011 1 1110110101 1010111 1011110101 1110101 100110101 1101100101 11001001 1110100101 10001011 1101011101 1101101 101010111 101011111 10100111 10 1111110101 01011010101 1111110011 1101000101 1111110111 1111111101 1101010001 1101001111 1101010101 1101010011 1 111101 10 0101 11001001101 1101010101 0101000100 0100100001 1101010101 1101110111 1110110101 1001010001 0111110101 1 1101110101 01 1011111111 0101011101 1010 11001001101 0101010111 1111000101 1101110101 0101010101 1101000101 1111010101 1101000100 1111000101 1101010101 11010111101 1101000101 01010111111 10110111101101001101010010010010111010101010110 10010 11011101 111001 1110111 1010101 1010111 1000101 101010 1011101 11101 10101010 110101 101010010010101010010110011001 100101 1001001001 1010111 100100101 1011001111 01111 100000101 111001001 1111 1111 1101101001 1001001011 1101011011 10111 1110101 1010101 1010101 1010101 01010101 01000101 11010101 11010101 11110101 10010010110111101101 1010 1001111111 0111010100 1101010100 1101001101 0101011101 10111010100 1011110101 0111 0110 01 110 1111 110111 0101 1111 1100001101 1101110111 1101011001 0111111101 01001111 0101010011 1101001101 1101000101 1100001101 0101010101 01001 01 0101110101 0110010110 0101111101 0101001101 01001010101 1101011101 1101110101 1101010111 1001 10 1011001101 1101000101 1110000101 1111110110 1111010011 1101011101 0101010111 1111000101 101011101010110110 1010 11001001 110010100 11101001 11001001 01101001 01101111 00101001 011010100 11111111 11001001 01001001 01001001 01101001 11001001 01101011 01001001 1010110001001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 62
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 270
  • 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; their, i, you, and, of, run, to, me are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words their, where, the, now, hurrah are repeated.

    The author used the same word o 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 swift, young, ways, roads, clods are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words swift, young, sleeps 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 swift connects the lines.

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  • summary of Aspirants Three;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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