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

Not yet!
I thought this time 'twas done at last, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a aaXbc ddefecfdg dfhiebgggheXgfej fkecdiXilmfi gainla fhngmcfacjaaaififiiggXgoaiXX glflolegemffie agecglacflgpggcaqiagfaioiikXqiaebmqb gaaeaehahkhdmfgla XXidglXmpfl aiqfeeeceggXofeamiffdfhangiXgamnopmfjafXiahaekXaaaaglalc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,9,16,12,6,28,14,36,17,11,56,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11 11011111 0100100100 1101010101 0101010100 11001100 01 1101111011 1111110101 1101110100 1011011011 0101011011 1111010010010 1111011111 1111011101 0101110101 01010100111 10010011111 1011011001 0101001101 11001100100 1111011101 0101010111 0111001011 1100010111 1011011101 0111010100 10010010111 1011010101 01001111111 1111010 101 1001011111 111100100111 01011101111 1011110101 1011000101 1001010100 1111010101 1011110111 010110010001 1101010101 1101111001 1000111101 10101011001 1100011001 10110101010 1001111111 010111 1111 1011010111 11010101110 01010001001 0101011101 1101110010 11001010111 0001011111 1101010100 0101011100 0101100111 1111010011 1101010101 11110001101 00101111101 1011010101 11000011001 1111010100 1110010101 11010101001 1111110101 0101011111 1101011001 1101010111 111110011 1100110111 1111110111 101011101100 1111111101 0011010101 0101010001 1001110101 0101110001 0100010101 1011010001 0111110111 0111010001 1101010110 0111111101 1101011101 1111011101 110101 1101 1000110001 0101111111 10011100111 1111001001 101001111001 01010100011 1011011100 1111100101 110000101 0101010101 11000011101 1101110101 1001111101 1011010111 1111011101 1111010101 101110000100 0101011101 10111010001 01010010101 1011110100 1011010111 01001011101 01001010101 01100010110 11111100101 1001011011 1111010011 11001011111 01111111000 1101110111 0011010100 0101111110 0101010101 1101010100 1000110001 0111011111 1111010111 01010101001 1101010101 1100111101 0101110101 0111111101 1101010101 00100100011 1111011111 1011011101 1111011101 1101100101 11011001001 1011010101 101111100101 1010100010100 11111111010 1110010111 1111100111 1111111110 1101010101 1100111100 1101110000 11010100010 1111110111 1111010111 1010010111 1110010101 1101110101 1101010111 0101111111 1101010101 1111011111 11010111111 0100010101 0001010101 1101101101 110101001100 1011111101 1010011001 11111111001 0101010111 00101111110 1111110100 0101010111 0111111011 0111110111 1001010101 11010100111 1111111101 11110101010 0101111101 1001110101 0111010101 110011100111 0101111111 1110010111 1101101100 0111010101 1101010011 1101101011 0110110001 1011110001 0001000111 1101011011 0101011100 1011010111 11110101100 1111110101 1101110001 0101101001 11010 11101 0111111101 0010011011 0101010101 1111110001 1011111101 1110111111 1111011111 1101011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 696
  • Average number of words per stanza: 128
  • Amount of lines: 210
  • 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; all, and, this, to, my, it, be, in, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, all, for, let, i, to are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines end is repeated).

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

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