This is an analysis of the poem Hesperus: A Legend Of The Stars that begins with:

PRELUDE.
The Stars are heaven's ministers;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcdcbeef ghahibab deXe ajcj bakalkak emHHemjheeh bbeEB iinbbn kbbXbbgXgeEB aaaiibbaeXb bXe m bdlhddbbneXXodegnaplniXbm XaXi J Xqhhq ahddh rhqqh X baXara dbXsanjndjtndsja d ffbtTXaX rrht Trrh J rdaad gadda J rafea X stmst hsjbdtanbgad d nhbbhb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,4,4,8,11,5,6,12,11,3,1,25,4,1,5,5,5,1,6,16,1,8,4,4,1,5,5,1,5,1,5,12,1,14,1,5,1,23,1,4,4,4,4,1,10,5,1,7,1,5,1,8,20,1,6,2,4,1,6,1,17,27,1,33,31,4,1,11,12,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 01110100 110011 11010100 010101 11000101 010001 01111101 1101010 1011010 110011 01101101 011101 010010001 110101 11010101 010001 11011100 0100101 11011100 111011 11010101 110101 10110101 110001 11010100 110111 110010000 0100101 10010111 010101 10011101 010101 1110101 1011 101 101 01 0011 1101001 001011010 10101 10001 10101010 111001001 100101 101011 1001 0010101 1011 1001 0101111 1001 1101 100101 111101 100111 10010 10110 1101101 110010 110010 110100 010110 001001 1001 0010101 11111 11101 0100101 101101 110101 0100101 111101 011011 10101 101100 100101 10010010 010100 0100101 1 11001010 0101011101 0101001001 0101001001 11010001 1000101 10010101 0111010 01000101 1111010101 110101100 10011000 1010111101 11010001 1101000101 1100010100 0101110101 1101000101 1001010101 01001010101 0111010101 0101011001 1101011100 1011001001 0101011101 11010001100 1101010101 0011001100 1101010011 110 11111100 11101111 11111 01001 1100101 1111110 10110111 10101 00101 11110101 1100110 01100111 11101 01101 00101101 1 0101011101 0100010111 01010101110 0101001101 110010100001 0101100001 0101010001 11010100101 001000 010001 1001100101 1100110101 1101011101 101101 100011 100101001 1101110101 0011001001 1101010001 0001010101 01010101001 11010010001 1010 1011010 01110 0111000101 110101 111101 11000100 1101110 001001011100 1101010 00110 010100111 1110101 111101 101010 0101010 0100100010101 1010 10101010 0011101 0011 10001 0100111 11101010 0100101 11010 100010 1101101 110 10111010 10100101 00100 00101 11101101 1 1101010101 1101000101 1101111111 0111110101 1100110101 1100010001 1111000101 01010011101 10001010101 0101010001 0101010011 1101000101 1010000101 1001110100 1100010100 01110110001 1110110100 101010 110010010 1100101 11010 11110 0100001 01001010 10101010 1111010 1101010 110101 0010001 11101011 11011010 1101101 110 11001010 1101001 00111 00101 11101001 1 10101 0101111101 1011000101 0100010101 1101000101 11010011111 0101010101 1101010001 1111010001 10111010101 1101010111 11010001100 0101010001 0101011101 0101010101 11110100101 0101110101 0111000101 1001001001 1011000101 1111001001 1011110101 0101010101 1010 1010101 1010110 10101010 100101001 1010101 1010101 1011101 10000101 0010101 1010101 110111 1011101 1011101 10111010 10101110 1000011 1 0101000101 1101010101 01101010101 1100010101 0101000100 0101001011 11001110011 1101010101 0100010001 1100110101 0101010100 0101000111 11100010001 0101000001 01010001010 11010 111110110 00100101 001001 00101 11001001 10011100 01000100 110 00001010 1101001 00111 00101 11101001 1 01001010100 01001010101 1101010001 1101010001 11001011001 0101010001 1011000101 1100010100 0100010111 0101110010 1111010011 1101010101 0101010111 1111110001 1001010001 0101000101 1011100111 0101010101 1001010001 0001010100 1101011001 0011110101 01010100101 0111010101 0111010101 1101011001 1101010101 0101010 1010 1101010 0010001 101010 001010 101000010 010101 1011110 1010001 001010 101010 100101010 0110101 110 101100 10010100 1101100 010101 0101010 111101 1 0100010101 0101101101 0100010101 010101 110001 10110101 1101011101 0111011101 01000110011 0101110101 0011000101 11101100 11001010101 11010101001 1011010101 0101010101 101001010011 1010001 00101 0111010101 1001010 100101 110000101 0100101001001 01010100110 0101010101 01010101001 1101010001 0011010101 1101010100 01000101001 0101010101 100101 100101 010101001 1011000100 0101010101 101010100 0101100101 110101010 111101 100101 1111010101 0111010101 11010 10001100 1010110 101010100 100100 11101011 0011101 10101011 1110111 11010100 0101 11010100 0001010101 110101 01010100 00010100100 0101000101 0001011101 11010111 0010110101 0101011 01010101 100101 0011010101 100101 1001011101 0101001 01010001 0101 1111010101 0101 1101000101 101101 10111101 11010101 1011010101 010001 0111110001 111101 0001011 11010101010 010001 0101011101 01010111 11010011101 01110101 11001100101 11010101 010101 1101001110 101 11111101 0001001 010101 10000100101 1001010001 10101 1010101 11010100 010101 110011001 11010010 010001010 01000101 010110 010101101100 1101110101 0100101011100 110111110101 1 0101010101 0101010001 1101010011 1101110101 10010100 010101 01100001001 10110 0100010001 1011110101 1101100101 110101 110111 101 101 01 0011 1100100 110101 110100 010110 1010010 111010 110101 110101 1111010 1011010 1001001 100111 100100 1100110101 1001010101 1111010101 0101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 75
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 512
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; of, as, love, oh, that, his, and, for, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, when, of, oh, and, a, to, each are repeated.

    The author used the same words and, oh, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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