This is an analysis of the poem Metempsychosis that begins with:

DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
ST. JOHN _a Presidential Candidate_... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbbc d E XfbeghXiddfejkifblXme e dede E adcdnkndhn D f E hbbbfXgan D dla E k D XnhaX E i D XelofXoffpenpl f nkppnfhph Efb Dc n X de l fXfdkfkf c pklXfhfflkpbhlbbnlmb ch E leeXl D cj kfXXd X Xdddededienipn ne D ppd D eed f bbee fhd alalXlblb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,1,21,1,4,1,10,1,1,1,9,1,3,1,1,1,5,1,1,1,14,1,9,3,2,1,1,2,1,8,1,20,2,1,5,1,2,5,1,14,2,1,3,1,3,1,4,3,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100010 1101010100 0100010100 10111101 1100101 101100101010 11 10101110001 1101001001 0101110111 0100010101 0100110100 0101001111 1001001000 1101001111 1111011101 1101010101 0101000101 1011011111 11010111001 1011110101 1101001111 1110010101 1011010011 1011110101 0101001000 0101010101 11111110101 101 110010010 11011111 111110010 01011001 11 1101010100 0101010111 0101011101 1100010101 1101110101 01010011011 01111100 10110 01 1100 110 110101 11 1111010111 1101011111 1101011111 1001010001 1001001101 01010111001 1111010111 010001100 0011110101 110 11110111010 1010000100 10 11 1101 110 0111 0111010111 0100110101 1100 1010010 11 111 110 0101000100 1011011101 1101000101 110111111001 1101010101 11010010011 1111100101 1100011101 0110011100 0101010101 0111010101 1101010101 100101001111 01011111 010 11 0101110101 1111000101 0101010101 0111010111 0101010111 11001010111 1101100101 1101101 11 1001 1111010 110 111 01010010 1101110 10101 0111 1 010101 010111 100101 110111 010001 010101 1100111 010101 101001 1100011111 1011010011 1011010101 0111011111 1101000101 10011110001 11110100010 100010000101 1011010111 11110100111 1111010011 1101110011 0101110111 1111001111 1100011011 1110011101 010100110010 1011000111 0101010111 1101 1101001 11 11 1101 1101110111 0100010101 100111011100 10010100 101 01 1111000101 1010111010011 101010010011111 101011010010110 0100101011010100 010010010 01010 10010010 1001001 10010110 0100101 101000010 0100101 110110010 1100101 001011011 011 01001001 0010101011 10101111 11010001 010100101101001 1011101000101011 101 1111110101 0111010101 10101 110 1111010011 1101111011 10110 010 1101000111 1011010100 11111111010 11110101010 01001011001010001001 10110100111010 1010111 1101011010 11010001001 111001010 0101 0101001010 11010111 01110010010 0101
  • Amount of stanzas: 52
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 191
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; i, my, and are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word st at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same words hayes, stevens at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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