This is an analysis of the poem High Conspiratorial Person that begins with:

OUT of the testimony of such reluctant lips, out of the oaths and mouths of such scrupulous liars, out of perjurers whose hands swore by God to the...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X X X X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010100101011001110110010101001111100110111 10011010011110001001101101001010110100001010111 0101111010101110101010001010110 01010111110101001011100110110010100010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 662
  • Average number of words per stanza: 120
  • Amount of lines: 7
  • Average number of symbols per line: 94 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 18
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, out are repeated.

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