This is an analysis of the poem The First Anniversary Of The Government Under O.C. that begins with:

Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze,
Which in smooth streams a sinking Weight does raise;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaabaaccddbbeeXeffeeeeggddgXggXaeehXXaiiaaXXccjjXjbbXjjXaaggffbbggkkllaammjjggaaggddiiggjjggaaffjjcccceejjaXggccnnjjookkggjjeecclXiiggjjffXaeeggggjjiijjbXXgoofXggnnjjjjaaiiiiffaaddXjffnnggjjffggcXXjffeeccjjggaaaacchhggaacXddbbffddXammddggjjbbggnngglXbbe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 402,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011000101 1011010111 11010100101 0011000100 1011000101 1101010111 1001010101 1101000101 1101111101 0011000101 10011011001 1101000101 1101010111 1011010101 1101110101 1011010110 1111100011 0011010101 1101010111 1111010101 1111010011 1111011111 1111010011 101110101 0101010101 1011011111 1111010101 1101011011 1101110110 0101000110 0100101111 010101111 11010100110 1101010101 1101000101 1101001001 1101110101 1001000111 01111101100 000111101 1101110111 1011010101 1101000101 110110011 1101000101 1101110001 1001000101 0101001101 111000101 1011100101 01011001010 10101000101 0101011101 1101010101 11111011010 1011010111 0101010101 11110100110 1101010111 111010101 1111000111 0101000101 1111010101 1101011101 1111010101 1001000101 1111010101 1101010100 11001010001 1001001111 11011100110 11010110010 111010111 1111110101 0101110101 1111000101 1101011101 1101010111 1101011101 1011100101 1001000101 1001010101 1101111001 1111010101 1101100101 0001010101 0101111101 1010000101 0101011111 1001000111 1111010001 0101110101 1011011001 1111010101 100100011 0101010101 1101000101 1101010101 1101110111 11011010111 1001011101 1101110101 1101010101 1101010011 1111010101 1001011101 1011011101 0111010011 1111010101 01011101010 11010110001 1101111111 1111100001 1011110001 11001111001 1111001101 0101010001 1101110101 0101001111 1001101101 1111010101 1101111101 1011010101 1001011101 1111110101 1001011001 10111011001 01010101001 1100010101 1001011101 11110011010 1111010101 1101000101 1100110100 1111110001 0101100101 10010011101 1111010101 1101010111 1101010101 1011011101 1101010101 11011110001 0101101001 1111111111 1001111101 1101110111 1101110101 1101101101 1111011101 1111110101 1001000101 1011010101 0111110101 1111110001 01010110010 1101001101 10100101101 1111011101 0111010101 1111010101 1111110100 1111110101 1101011101 1110110101 1101000101 1111010101 1111110101 1111110101 1101010101 1111000100 1001010100 1101110111 1101011111 1111101101 11100010111 1101010001 1011011101 1111111101 11001110101 1011010101 0101001101 1101110101 0101010111 1101111101 1111010011 1011001101 1110010101 10101010101 1111110111 1011101101 1111110001 111010101 1101011101 1111010101 1011111101 1111010101 1111111000 0101110110 1011011001 1101010101 1111010111 1101110101 1011010101 0101000101 0101111001 1001011101 1010010101 0101010101 1111010101 1101010111 1011110101 1111110101 1111110101 1101010101 1101111001 0011110101 1001010111 1101110101 1111010101 1101011111 1001111101 0101110011 0101110100 1001010101 1101110101 1111011101 1001010111 1101100101 1101010111 1011110001 1101010101 1101011001 1011101111 1011110111 1111110011 1001010101 1101111101 1110110111 1001100111 11000010101 1111011101 111110111 1111001111 10111101001 1001000111 1101110101 1001110101 11001000101 111001111 11010101110 1101011101 1111010101 011100100 1111010111 1111011101 1001111111 1111010101 1111011101 1100010011 1101010101 11010100101 1111001101 1001101111 1111111101 1001110101 1001010101 1101100011 1101000101 1100010101 0100110101 1011010101 1101101101 10010110101 0110010101 1101100101 1101110001 1001111101 1101011101 1100111001 1101010101 1111010101 1111110101 1101110101 1011101010 1111110011 1101110101 0100110001 1101001111 1101111101 1110110111 1111110100 1101010111 0111100111 1111011101 1001111101 1111101101 1101100101 1101011111 1101001101 1101010101 1101010001 1100111101 1101011111 11110101001 1101001101 1111110111 111101100 1111110011 1100100100 1001011111 10010010001 101001101 10010010010 1101010101 0011001111 1111000001 1001100101 1111010101 1101011001 1011010101 1110110111 1011010101 1001110001 1111010101 1011010101 1111001001 1011010101 1111110101 1001110101 1101110101 1111010101 1111001101 01010101110 0101010101 1101011111 1001111111 1011010101 1011111101 1111110101 1101011110 10010000101 1111111111 1101110101 1001010111 1101011101 1101010001 1100010001 10011010111 10011100101 10101011111 10111110111 10101011101 101011100100 100111111001 10101101101 10111110101 10101000101 1010100111 10101010101 10100101100 1000110010100 10101011101 10101111101 1100010101 10101010101 10111110100 10101010001 1100010001 10111110111 10111010111 10101110111 10011111101 1010110101 10111111101 10111110111 10101101111 10101110111 1101011011 100011110001 11000101100 10001010001 1101010001 10101011110 10011111111 10011110101 1101110101 10101000111 10001111101 10100110101 10111101101 10111111111 10101011111 10111011110 10011011111 10111110111 10111000101 10111011111 10111000111 10101110111 10101001100 10001010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 17876
  • Average number of words per stanza: 3128
  • Amount of lines: 402
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their, to, he, and, they, thy, of, we, what, all, with, where are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words if, nor, and, it, that, what, where are repeated.

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