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

At the wheel plied Mariline,
Beauteous and self-serene,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaaa bb ccdd dc bbbb Xa X eeee bb ffff aX gggX XX X DXDd fX bbbb Xb ddXd X hh bbbb ii jjjj jj aaaa aX d aaaa bb kkkk aa d ffff XX X llll bb bbbb aX aaaX ll Xiii kk X ffff bb dddd dX ffff gg mmmm bk X XaXa ff nnnn k ll XbbX aa oooo ff ffff ff bkbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,4,2,4,2,1,4,2,4,2,4,2,1,4,2,4,2,4,1,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,1,4,2,4,2,1,4,2,1,4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,1,4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,1,4,2,4,1,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,4,1,2,4,2,4,2,4,1,2,4,2,4,1,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011100 101101 1010011 1110111 1011101 1010101 0011100 1010100 1010001 1011111 1010101 1011100 1011101 1001001 1010101 1010001 1010100 1010101 1 10101001 10101001 1000101 1001111 1010101 10001010 1000110 1001101 1000101 1011101 0010101 1111100 1010101 1010101 1110101 1010101 1010100 1001100 1 101101111 1010100 101101111 1010111 1010101 1000101 1011101 1110101 1110101 1110101 1010001 01001001 1010111 1110101 1010100 1010111 1 100111001 11101101 10101001 0010101 1010101 1010101 1110111 1100101 1110101 0010001 1011101 1011101 1010111 1011111 1110101 1110001 1111101 1111101 1011101 1001100 1 1010101 1010101 1111101 0010101 1010101 10011001 1110101 1110001 1010101 1010101 1010101 1001111 1 1010011 1010101 1010011 1001001 1010110 1011100 1 1010101 1011111 1010001 1001101 1010101 1010101 1011111 0101100 1011101 1001101 1010111 1011100 1010111 1010101 1010101 1011100 1010101 10010101 100100 1010101 1110001 1101101 1000101 10000101 1 10100101 1110111 0010011 1011111 1100001 0100101 1000101 1111111 1010111 1010111 1010111 1011100 1010111 0110001 1011101 1010101 1010111 1011101 0011111 1110101 0111110 1011101 1011101 10010101 1 1001100 1011101 1111010 1011101 0010101 1010101 0110101 1011101 0111101 1010101 1 1010101 1110101 1010101 10101001 1010101 1110101 1010101 1110101 1011101 0010111 1011111 11000001 1010111 1000101 0110101 1010101 1110111 1010101 1010101 10011001 1111101 0100101 1010101 0010101 1010101 10010101 1000101 10010001 0010101 1010100 0011101 1010101 1000101 0110101 1010001 10010010 1 10100101 1011101 1011111 1010101 0110101 1011101 100101010 10001010 0010011 1011101 1010111 1010111 1000101 1010101 1101101 1110101 10101001 0011101 1 1110001 1100001 1010101 1010111 0110100 1010111 0111111 1110101 0110101 0110101 1111111 1011101 1 1111111 0110101 1010001 1010001 1111101 1110101 10100101 001001 1011001 1010001 1010101 0111101 1000101 1010001 1110111 1111111 10101001 0011101 1011101 0010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 90
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 80
  • Average number of words per stanza: 14
  • Amount of lines: 257
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; like, in, of, hour, by, day, and, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words like, while, gift, by, told are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word mariline at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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