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  • Rhyme scheme: a b ac dbbefb gcbX hcbf ff fc efii i jb X e f cbbcbgbkkljfbbXmnolbhfhXcXbfbbbXcXXjidhlelbh X f pbdbbbddbbfcidbbbbdddcXdfecdnebcqfdccnfci X c beboncbfccbnrhamfefjcfbbXfbbfnXnebmbribfnbnmbbbneecbX a l XXbdebgdblqhlbbfbXbfXgobXdbbfqqqepqgbbcbhchXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,2,6,4,4,2,2,4,1,2,1,1,1,44,1,1,41,1,1,53,1,1,62,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 110 11000110111001101 101 010101010101101 100001011000011001 01010101010110010 010100111110110110 0001001101101011 01010010 01011001101110 01110111000101 101101001111010110 100101001010010 110011101101001010 11110111101001 001101101101011 11101110 11111010100010100 101 11010010001010 00011111001110010 1010111110110010101 00110101111010100110 101011010111101 1010000101 1110111010101110101 010110111011011110 110 1 101111010 1001 11 1101 10011 10010 1001100 11010 0110101010 001010 110010 0101 110110 1000101 11101 11001 10100 01110011 110000101011 111100100101 10100010001 100101001010 111010101000101010 1111011 10110110 01011110 01101111 1110101101100 1011001001001 1010110111 1010001 011010100 01110010 0110100 001011100101 101 11110101 11011011100 0110010101000101 1110101010 1110010 01011100010 01101010001010101 10110101 1010010 010 1 1101 01011001001 010010101011 0101010111100101 110100100 1010 11111010 101101 11010011010 110 101010 10110 11001 1101 101 101110 11 111 11101001010 1 1 01010010101 100110101001 1011010 1111001101 01 001010011 0111 11 1001100 10 11011010010 1001011 1 010101 101010110 11 010101010 0110 011 110101001101 0011 1 1011011 110010111 11011 0100111111010 01 101011010 01 1100010 1101 101 110 10111 101110001001 101101 010110 110111 100101101 100010011 10001111000101 00100011 0110011010010 1010110010 1010010100110 00101001 010010011110 0100100111 101010 1101110 1101011 10010 01000101010 1011010110 01010101 11010 1001010101010 101011 1010111010 01111001 11111 101110 101011 010100 011 0110010 11101011 011001 10100101 0100010010 01100010110 110000101 11001110010 101111 11101101010 011100010110001 1 10100 1011101000 1010 110101 101 111000101 01110 10110 101010 10010 1000 1 11101101010 01100100 01110 100101 11101 01011101010 0101010 100101 111 101000 10101100 11001 01111 0101100 111 11101 10010110 0111010111 11 11 010101 1111 1101 01011 011110110 110101 1010110 1101 1101111 1101011010 0100010 0101110 111100 110010010 11100111110 101111 11110100 1001110 0101010010 11 0111 11 100110 110100110 0010111001000 11 011110 01011 1111 11000101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 310
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 247
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, they, like, gold, rain, it, black are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words red, they, the, gold, a, lifting are repeated.

    The author used the same word red 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 ', gold, fish are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase gold connects the lines.

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