This is an analysis of the poem An Athenian Reverie that begins with:

How the returning days, one after one,
Came ever in their rhythmic round, unchanged,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacdedfghidddjcklbfemedeacdedcXdndhXlchdXhdaXdachbXbbodbdagik hedXcfbpkaXdbdbdghbhdjXdddgbboheXdadqlXhahXeaddogckhhdlg XdnchadeXgddrahflbloocabladhidXibbshtaXdhddmbafmkr hndglaisledfanefbafXokakhggeXhgdXaeaeddeknae fsXccbnatbahcdhdbgteeboXdsoandgheckfecc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 62,56,50,44,43,56,92,29,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001011101 1100110101 1011111001 11111001 1100111101 1110001111 01010011101 10001011011 11011110100 010100101010 1111010101 1111110101 1100110101 1011010100 1111010011 1011100101 0111011011 111000101 0101001101 11110101001 1001011011 01010110101 1110011111 01010101001 1101110101 10110001001 11110101001 01010100101 1100010101 1001010111 11000111011 110101110 1111011101 1101110100 1100100101 11110101 11000100100 0101010111 0101010101 11110001001 110101110010 0101010100 10011111010 01000110100 0101110101 0011010101 0101010101 1101011111 0101000101 11111111011 1101000101 010100110 010101101 1001011111 00011101110 1101011101 0101010101 010011100 111011111 1101010111 0101111011 1101 1001010 0101110101 1100010111 00010101000 1101111101 1101010101 1101110111 1001010001 1100011101 1101100101 1011011001 1100010001 100101001 1111010111 11011111001 100010101001 1101010101 1011010100 1111000111 1101011100 1111110100 11011001101 1001010100 11010100100 1011000101 110011100101 1001010101 1001001001 0101000101 11011100100 1001000001010 0101010001 01010101010 11001100111 10110110101 0101001111 1100010111 0101010101 1111001110 1111010101 1100111011 1100011001 0100010100 110000101110 0101010001 0111001001 10010111001 01010101010 0111011111 1101001101 01010111001 0101001101 1101010100 10110111001 0101011111 011101 1100 11011011101 0101011100 0101000111 010011001010 01001001101 0111010011 010011101001 0111010100 1100011101 001000111 1011111101 1101010101 110111101 1111110101 0101001111 1101110111 01010100101 100010111001 0101010100 10010101010 0101100111 11010010101 11010101001 10010100101 1111010011 1101000101 1011100111 1101010101 100110011 01010010101 11001000101 1111010111 1101011111 0101110101 1001010101 1001010111 1100110111 00010010111 1101110111 0101010111 01110100110 11010111010 10010011101 11110001101 111111001010 10111101000 01010001001 11010111011 1101 1110110 0111010100 1101010011 101011111001 1101110101 11111101001 1001111111 00101010101 00100110101 1001000111 1111000001 10101011010 01011101001 10101110010 1101001111 11010111 0101011111 0101011111 1111110101 1111010101 11011011010 11100101001 1101000101 1101010101 1111110101 0111111101 111111010111 1111011111 11010100 0011110101 1001110101 1111000101 1101111100 0111111111 0111110111 0111110111 11110101001 01010010001 01001010111 0101110111 110101010101 0101010100 0101110100 110111 1111 0111010101 01001010100 1101010111 01110110111 1111110111 1111010100 11000101010 1101110111 1011111101 1111101101 0100111111 0111011001 1111110001 1101111111 0111010111 11010001001 11011000011 01010010101 010111001110 10101011101 1111010101 11110000110 1110001100 1111001110010 1011111101 10011101110 1111000101 1111110100 0111011101 1101010101 1001010111 0101111101 1111111001 1101010101 0111011101 11111110101 1011010101 1101100101 11010110111 1101010101 1101000101 1001111101 1110110100 1111110101 1011110111 1100110100 1111111101 1111010101 1101110101 0111000101 1011110111 11010010101 11010001001 01010101000 111111010100 0111010111 1111010101 1101100001 1000011101 0101010101 111111000 1111100111 1111110101 01010101010 0101011001 0110010100 1011000101 1111110101 111101010 1111011111 110100011 01110010101 0101100101 1111111111 1111010111 1101111100 01110111011 1101011101 111001111 1001010101 10001010111 0111010101 1011110101 1111111111 1101001111 1111101001 111001111110 1101010001 01010011101 0100110101 0111110011 10011011110 0101010111 10110111010 11010100001 0101111111 1101010101 100101 1111 01000110101 0111011101 11111111010 1110010111 11011001101 0110101010 0111010101 1001010011 1100010101 1101010111 11001010011 1111001111 011101011 1111001101 1111001101 1101110111 1101011111 1001010111 1111010111 11011000 10011101110 1101110111 110010011011 01111100011 10100100111 01001000111 01011011001 11010100100 1101110111 1100110111 011010100 11011110110 0101001101 0101110101 11001010011 0101110100 1011011101 1111011111 1011010111 1101111100 1111010001 1111101101 1111111111 11010101111 1111010101 0100010101 01110101001 01111101010 101101001001 01010111 01011100110 1101010100 1011111111 0101110111 01010111001 0110010011 01001010101 111101010101 0111000111 1101011101 01011101001 11011101001 1101010111 1101010111 0101010111 01001001111 1001110111 1101011011 1111110011 11010110010 0101010101 0101010111 100101001010 1101010101 11011111110 00110111011 1111001101 1101011001 01010101110 1101011100 1110000101 1011110101 0111010101 11010101001 1100110111 1101001101 1101011111 1101011000 1101011101 01011100111 10110010011 1001010111 0101110101 01101111111 1111110111 0111010111 1110011101 01100101 11111100011 1101010101 1111001111 1101010101 11001101001 01010011010 0101011101 11001011001010 01101101001 0111010001 0101000111 0111000101 0111110011 1101011101 10110010101 010010011111 1111010101 11010110000 1011111101 1011100101 10111101001 11100
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2325
  • Average number of words per stanza: 415
  • Amount of lines: 432
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; with, and, her, how, to, his, for, their, from, each, so, many, i, we are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, of, how, no, that, we are repeated.

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