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

Come, my little Robert, near-
Fie! what filthy hands are here-... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddccbbaaeeffggddeeaaccbbdd XXhhdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101 1110111 11101101 0110001 0010101 1010101 1110001 1110101 1010111 1110101 10100101 0111101 1110101 1010101 10111010 00101110 1010111 1011011 1111111 0011011 1011011 0011101 101101110 10111110 1010101 10100001 1010101 1010001 10001001 1010101 1001101 1110101 1010100 1010100 100101010 00101110 11101010 10101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 580
  • Average number of words per stanza: 104
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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  • summary of Cleanliness;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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