This is an analysis of the poem From The Minutes that begins with:

When, with the force of a ram that discharges its ponderous body
Straight at the rear elevation of the luckless culler of simples,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXbbaXXXaXcaXXcbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010011010010010 11011010001010010 01001001010011010 110010011010010 010010010010110010 1011001010010010 010010010010100010 110110010010010100 01001001001001110 11111001000101010 1100101010010010 11101011011111110 110110011010010010 01101001101111110 01101001010110100 0110011101110100 1001001110110010 1101001001011111 010010010010011010 111100010110100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1289
  • Average number of words per stanza: 213
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

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