This is an analysis of the poem A Brother Of The Battuti that begins with:

Shed, sinful flesh, these tears of blood,
For all thy vileness all too few; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdXdbebefgfgadadadadahahdidigdgdjejeagagklklmgmgncncoeoe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101 111100111 11110101 01111011 11010111 01010101 11001111 010100111 11000101 11110111 11110101 11110001 110111010 11011101 011001010 11111111 11000101 11110111 11010101 111011011 010100101 01011101 11110101 11010101 11110111 11011101 01011101 11010111 101010111 11111111 11111111 11010101 11110101 11111111 11010111 01010111 11110111 111111011 01110111 011100101 01010101 11010111 11111011 11010011 11010100 11110100 10110101 111111001 11111111 11010001 11111111 011000101 11000101 11111101 110100101 11110101 11011101 11111111 11011111 01010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2106
  • Average number of words per stanza: 403
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor, of, and, i, my, give are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.

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