This is an analysis of the poem 1777 that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: a b cdaeafghhi dhcdedihfccXidXjbkdlhbeamdenonck X i ficFbciiiicAXicC dfddnpXigknjfXaXXmXdqXdXcicmXkmMMbXidpqX fdiihdcreiXcqAfiiMMbrdldifbkiiiecdiiiiidMehfbfcC hicqoXhehbhMMiiicdeicCFbf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,10,32,1,1,16,40,48,25,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 010110 010010110101110 1010011010111 111110101 111101 1001011 011011010 010101 100111010 10011010 100110010101101 11001100011111 0010111101010 11011111110 110101010101 1101010 11111001 10111001101 111111 110111011011 001110101001 111000101 01010100010010 11101010 11001001100110011 11011000101010 1001101010111 11110111010110 101110001011101 10111010111010 11011001111110011 11011 0110101110 1101111 101001 111011001 101111 0101010111 11101110 111010110100 11011101010 01100101110011 1011111000011 1 0100101 11 11 101101 11 10 101 011 101101 101110 111010 1 111 111 11000100101 1 110101 11001 100 11101010 11010111 1101010 1001011 110100101100 110010111 111110111110 1110010101 11101110 001010101010110101 0110100010010 111100110011 100101101001 101010010001010 11101000100 01111011 11001111 11101 111111 01010 1111001001 101110010 0101100101010 101010011 01010111 110010 010101001010 1101 0101101011 1011 10010 0101010 101110 10110 110111101 01111011 101111 1111010 0101 100011 100011 11011 1101 11010011110 1101 11110100 101011010101 010101111 0111010110 1 11 111 100100111011 1001010101 10111111 1011 10010 111010 1011001110 10011111 0110101 011011 011 01110 1010 101011101 10010110 11101000101 1110011010 011001 1010010 1110010100010 10011010 1001001 100110 10010101010 100100 10101001 10010 00101011 1111101011 111001010111 10 1 1 110101 11011010 00100101 1011 1011100101 00010 1001000 1100110 0011000101 101000101 11101001010 1010001010 1011 10010 0101 0011111 010111001110 100101100011000101 11100001 01001 101 1 110101 11 10 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 577
  • Average number of words per stanza: 103
  • Amount of lines: 177
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; red, i, and, lines, my, of, for, leaves, black, masks, yellow are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, clang, one, shadows, yellow, from are repeated.

    The author used the same word the 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 trumpets, leaves, brown, sings are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases leaves, one, shadows, masks connect the lines.

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