This is an analysis of the poem Monodies that begins with:

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I stand in thought beside my father’s grave: ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXdXeadfdcfdgdehcefaihjkdldecmlamnboccohcaggdgaaeXdXdfgfdmcdldkag XpdmgmdkcgpadcfbhgicnicfebjahfjacfjidpdmgcbalaXeikljlalllegdlffjbf loppckecXfXiemXhlkj fjcmdfcofpj XcacXcacdadaqeqXoollmmelle
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 67,66,19,11,26,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1101011101 0101100111 1101110111 01001010101 111101111110 10011010011 1101010101 11110011011 1101110101 10010111001 0110100101 1101010101 1001011111 0101100111 010010101001 01001011111 1101110011 1110010111 10110010001 0101001001 0101011101 0100010100 1111111101 1101010101 1101000101 1101010001 1100010011 0111010101 1100010101 1101100000 1111110101 1101110111 1111111001 01111100101 01111101001 01001100001 1110010001 11010010101 1101100011 10010010101 0111100101 1111001101 1101110101 01000100111 01010000101 1101110101 1001001101 0101010001 1111010100 0111011101 1011010101 0101010001 0101010001 1111001001 01000100100 100010101111 01011001001 0101110110 0101111010 0010010101 1001001101 1011110101 0100010101 01011111101 1101111111 1001000101 1 1111010011 1101110111 0111011111 011010101 0111011101 01111111001 1111011101 1110010001 1111010101 01001001111 0001011101 0111001101 11010000101 1111010101 1101011111 1111101111 0111010101 11110111010 11110111010 1101100101 11001011100 1101011101 1011001001 1011110101 11001000101 1101111101 11111111011 1110110101 1100111101 1100011101 10110100011 0101010111 01001001101 1001101101 11110011110 1101011101 1100110111 1111001101 0110011101 10110111001 110101011 0100011111 1011011101 01010010111 1111110101 1110001111 11001000101 01010101100 1111010101 0101010011 1001011011 11110011010 0111011101 1011011111 0111000111 0101111101 11110111001 1101110101 0100010101 0101111101 010010100111 0101010111 0111010111 1100000101 111101 1101 1001111111 1001010101 1101100101 01011100011 011000010101 1111000101 1100011001 11001010101 0100010101 01100101100 1001000100 01001111111 1101010101 01010010101 11100110111 01001111101 0100111101 1001001101 1101010101 1011010111 1111000111 1101010111 1111011111 1111001101 0111001111 0100110011 1101100111 1101010101 1101 1 11111111 10110101 011010111 110010100 11011111 11011101 110101001 11011101 11010001 11010101 110000101 01000101 11110101 01001101 11111101 01111001 11110011 11111111 11111111 11110011 10110101 11011101 11011101 11011110 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1137
  • Average number of words per stanza: 203
  • Amount of lines: 195
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; he, of, and, me, o are repeated.

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

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases i, connect the lines.

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