This is an analysis of the poem Flee On Your Donkey that begins with:

Because there was no other place
to flee to,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcddceafgchi ccjdkj fcala djaaj dmcncldcomcnmp Xqrhbmackl caGacdc slmcmabha hgacldkcgbjcdd ddlbc igdaaldaodrddgslh gltlkcncdmg iaomatG amcmclilrdsdfmoolcgXm glmdufdkvgi fcXcdcakGmlmce blngg dcccldlc salXva KcdddhhKXggsh qjcvudggfag agcrbXdg XmscaXmohdncp
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,6,5,5,14,10,7,9,14,5,17,11,7,21,11,14,5,8,6,13,11,8,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111101 010 1110010001010 1111111 01000111 01101010 101111111 101001010101 010111001 111101010 1010010 100010110 1011 01110111 101100 111111111 011110010 011111 10101 101111 0111 101 11011 0111 010101100 1011011 1001001 011101 111011 10101 110110010101 10101110 1011110 100101 110101 1110111 0101 1100111110 10101100101 100110111 111101 00011111 10111101 10111 1010001110 1111 01011101 001011110101 11110101111 01001101 011011 1010101010011 00101010 1001101010 100100011001 1110110 111101011 1111011 01011010100 11110 01 00111 01101 01010010011 01010101011 00010001 0100111101 110111 110010 11 1101110 11110101 100111101 110111110101 1111101000101 1110111010 11011101 111101010 111101101 11101111 01010110 110010 1101000110 1111010101 01011 11010101 0111 11 111011 010 11011101 1101101 1111001010 110000111 1101 001 11010011100 1010001111 10111 11100100 1111001 101100110 1101101111 0011 01000010010 111110 00111110 01110101 1101110 10111 0111011 110001 11110 11011 111 0111110 1110 10101001 01111000110 100101 1110111 01111011 1110110 111110 101001101 010010011 11111 01011110 11111 00011 0111 110111 101110101 111 11101 1111101 110110 100100 0100111010 1111011 11 1010 010010 1011100101 11010 11101 11110 1111 10101 11010101 01 1100101101 1100111101 11010111010 11011011 111 00101 111010 11011110001010 100100101 1111 10110100 01111011 1110110 1101 1100111 1010 11111 0111 111 11 11110 10111110 1110100 010101 110101 1111110 1111 0111 111101110 11001 10101 1011111 101001101 0010101101 111 01101101011 10110101 1111 101001101 1110100 010000 11010001001 0010010101 10111111 1111 1000 10001101110 110100 1111 110101 1110110 010001 010001 010110101 1101111011 1111001 111111010 101010110 0001101001 0111101 001010 0010 101010 101110 00101001 1011011 111 001001 0011011110 1110 11100100010 111111 11010 111111101 11 11110 10101 1111101 101010 1100010 10010111 11 101111 00110110011 11010010 1111100 0101
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 238
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; to, and, what, dinn, of, he, eyes, my, i, it, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words today, six, the, he, i, eyes, that, it, flee are repeated.

    The author used the same word i 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 it is repeated).

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

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