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  • Rhyme scheme: a bXXX cXdX ebfb XXXX gbhX fXXX XXbX ifddX jbXX kXeX hbXXX XXXX cXjX gbgb fXXX XXXX XfXX lXfX XaXfa jfgfaX dedX XbaX abiX ddiiX XXXX aXldXd dmdX XXHd HXdX Xdbd kXjX jXXb XXXf dfdf Xaha XbXb bbjX XbXX XXXb XXbX nXXX dbXXb XXfX XXXa aXXX d XXeX XiXX aaXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,6,4,4,4,5,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,6,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011 010011001 110011 10101111 111110 011010010 0101111 11010111 001101 110100101 110111 1110010011 111101 11010110 110111 01011001 011101 11110111 111101 111111101 111111 11110111 111101 1110110 10101010 110101001 1101011 110011101 0100100 1111101 100111 111110101 11100111 1101010 110000101 010101 11111111 111110 1111111 101110 100101101 111101 1100111 110111 1011101001 10110101 110111 11110001 11011 01111111 11010110 111101010 111111 111111001 0011000 11010111 110001 110111111 111101 1011111001 0101110 111111111 100110 1011111001 0010110 11011110 1101111 11100110 110111 110101011 1100110 110111011 11111 11101101010 1110111 0100100110 0101001 11010111 10011101 101111 101110101 11111 101010111 100111 11111111 111010010 1111101111 010111 011011 100110 111111110 111111 11011111 111111 11111111 1011111 111101101 011101 01111101 110101 1101011 101011101 110101 111111010 110111 11110111 110111 011111001 1101001 111000101 111011 111011101 111111 11110101 1100110 111110101 110111 1111111 110001 101011111 10111 101011111 111111 111101111 1111100 11011111 111011 111011101 1100111 111101111 011011 11111111 0111010 01111101 01001001 1100111001 1011111 111110111 11001010 10111101 0110111 11110101 111101 1101111001 0101101 11110111 111101 11111101 111111 111110 111111 111101111 11011 11110101 011101 1111110111 1101110 11010110 110101 1110111011 010111 11111111 111010 111101110 110111 011101 110101 10111101 111011 111111101 001100 110001111 10111010 111101011 011111 11001101 01110101 0101001 11110110 1111101 1110110101 111111 0111111 111001 01111101 111001 1110111 010110 11011110 110101 1010 1010101 110101 0101100 010101 110101110 10111 0101011 0101001 100010111 01011 110101110 110101 01110111 111111 11011111 111110 11110111 110101 101000110 110111 011111001 100111 111111001 111101 11110101 010111 11101101 010110101 0110010 111011101 01001 11001111 110101 11000101 110111 1100111 111001 110110001 111101 11111 110110111 010101 110110111 110101 1011101 110101 01011101 1101101 11011111 1110111 01010100 010101 11111111 11011 010111101 01111 11001111 010101 111001110 1010001 110111001 01011 101011111 110111 01001101 010101 111111101 111111101 111101 1111011 010010 11010110 0100111 011111 110111 1101011010 010101 01110111 110101 11011111 111101 11011101 101110 01111101 1111111 111100110 1010111 110100101 101111001 010111 11100101 110101 11111111 1111011 11111101 111101 11011111 1111010 01111110 100111 11100101110 010010 1110010111 01111011 010011110 110111 11111110 101101 11111100 0001010 1100100110 011111 10101110110 011101 1111111 1111111 110110111 10101001 1110101 1100110 111100110 110101 1011110111 110111 110110101 1101010 11110111 011111 1100111001 1100110 01110001 111010 111110110 11011110 11010111 001101 0110101 1001110 11011101 010111 110101101 110111 01010101 111110 11101111 111101 01010101 110101 11111111 111111 01010111 1101101 11011101 1111101 01110101 110001 111100111 1111010 11010111 1100101 110000101 111001 11010101 1110101 011111 11100001 110101010 110101 111100010 110101 11111101 1100001 111100001 1100101 11111101 110101 110111111 1001110 1110111 011011 11100101 101111110 111110 11011101 111011 11111111 111101 11001101 110101 10100111 100101 11110101 011111 11011100 111101 1111111 111101 11111101 11111110 1100011 100111 11010101 110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 96
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 397
  • 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; him, ', for, i, and, ile, love, that, as, he, welcome, his, her, she are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words one, 'o, and, a, the, his, ne, or are repeated.

    The author used the same words and, then, 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 ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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