This is an analysis of the poem Viva Perpetua that begins with:

Now being on the eve of death, discharged
From every mortal hope and earthly care,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcadaeafghffa figahfdjadfdXaiadfickcilafamldanibakag fopifcbXkqooga riseofajcbfgdatienrpkekd isicgcsXifidXkcolo tmdXifalcfmmbaaauaacmffdfocfcffaXaiXamdakioXmvfcdmfX ifidfbdiXfaiatgacpigbf mXmfifigitaaibauavaoldpejnaamodaifidoasgdciaallbXkakgdiaoiaffodgnm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,38,14,24,18,52,22,107,14,34,30,20,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010101 01001011101 1101111101 01101100101 00110111111 10011101011 0110011100 11000011101 0111110011 11001010101 1101001011 00110010101 1001010101 0101011101 1001010111 0011010101 1100110101 1101011111 10101010101 0101110001 1111110111 1101110101 11001010111 0101010011 1111010101 1101111101 1101000100 11000100101 1001110111 1110110101 1101010101 100100001111 01010011111 11011111001 1001001101 10010100100 0111001101 1101110111 0011000101 11011111001 01011000101 1101110101 11100111001 1101001111 1111010101 11011011101 01010001111 1111000101 1111110101 1101010011 1001110101 0111010101 1111111111 11001010101 11110000100 11010101110 0011010111 1111010101 0100110111 0101010100 1101110101 01001000111 11110101001 1001001100 0101110101 01001110001 01001010101 1001111101 1011011111 1011011100 0101001101 1100011101 1111001101 1101000111 1101110111 1111010101 1001100001 1100010100111 1001000100 0111001101 1101010100 0100010101 0111010100 0101010111 0111010101 1101110100 1010011011 0101010100 0101000101 0101010001 01011111001 0101010111 1000010011 1111110111 1101011101 01001010111 01011100101 10011101010 1111100101 1001000101 1101010100 1101011101 11110111010 11001011101 1101110111 1111111101 0101010101 0101010111 0101000100 1100010101 1101010011 10011110110 1101111101 0101011011 01110001001 10011111111 11110111111 01110111001 11110001000 1101001101 1101010101 1101010101 01001011101 0111110111 11110100111 01010010101 1101011101 0101010101 0101010111 1001110111 0101110011 1111110101 0101010101 1001010011 1011110111 0111001101 0101110011 0001010101 1101000111 1111111111 0101100010 010001110101 1001110101 11010111001 0111010101 1101111001 1100110101 0111010011 1101110111 1111010001 1111010111 1101010010001 1101001101 0100010100 1100110101 1011010010 1101010011 1101111100 1111110001 11111101010 1111010111 1101010111 0111001101 1001010111 1010011001 0110010101 1111110001 11000010111 1100110100 110110101 0100110111 01010100100 1100011111 1101010100 0101010101 0100010101 1011001111 11011101010 11000111111 1111011111 11111101001 1111010101 1111011111 1111010100 11011101110 0101110111 0101101101 1101110111 1100111101 0111011101 1011000111 0100010100 1010110101 11011100111 0100010100 1011010101 1111100101 10010010001 0101010101 1111000101 1101100101 0101011001 1100111111 110100101001 1100010010 1101001100 1001010101 01011101001 1101110111 0101010101 0101011101 0101110111 11010100101 0100011101 010100011 0101000111 0111010111 01010001001 1111110011 0101010011 1011011101 0100110101 0100110101 1110010011 10110111001 1111010101 11010001111 1001010111 0111111001 1100010101 1101011101 11010011001 11000100111 0101011111 0111010111 01001101001 1011011101 01000010001 100010111 1101011101 0110011101 0100110111 1100111101 1101110011 1110010101 0100011101 1111010111 0101000100 0111110111 1101010101 11010101001 0101110101 1001001101 1101010101 1111011101 0101000111 1001000100 01010001110 10110011001 1101010011 1001110100 0100111111 1101010101 1011010111 1111110111 0110010101 1100010101 11000100101 0100010101 11000100101 0101000101 0111000100 010101001 01010001010 1011010111 0100111000 0100010011 0110110100 1101110111 11010010101 0101111000 1110111101 1011101110 11011101110 1011010111 1100010101 1101110101 1011011101 0011110001 10110100101 1101010100 1110010100 1101011111 110101101 1011010111 1100001100 1110010100 1001110001 1101010101 0100110101 1100110101 0101100101 1100101 1111 0100010100 1011111111 0101010101 1111110100 1011000101 0100011101 01001010100 1111010011 11101100111 1111011011 1101010100 1111010111 0101110101 1111111101 0101010101 1101110101 1011011101 01110100111 1100111011 1100010101001 1101010100 1001010111 1010111111 1101110011 1101111101 0101010111 0101010101 01010000101 1111110011 0100011101 0101010101 0101011111 1001110101 0101011111 0011110101 11111101101 0111010101 0101010101 1101010101 00110100101 01001110101 10110111001 1101110111 111111001 0111010111 01001011000 0101111101 1101100111 1111010101 0001010111 0110010101 10111001101 1101000101 0110110101 1101111101 0101110100 1111001011 1101110001 1111101111 1100110101 1111010111 1101000101 1011010101 01001111011 1101000101 1101011111 0011000101 1101011101 1111111101 01011000111 1001010111 0101100011 1101011101 10110010001 01001110001 10100100100 1101011111 1100010001 0101010101 01001010101 1011010111 1101110001 010011101 01010001110 1111010101 0101000111 1111111100 0100101011 011101001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1279
  • Average number of words per stanza: 232
  • Amount of lines: 393
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and, with, our, of, her, you, it, his, we, so are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, her, the are repeated.

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