This is an analysis of the poem Ariel And Caliban that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcaaddefgaghfefggeddddXgbgfceiXfjkbcXdflbmggbngfbdcXocbdfbinkfdmpfcbkXcceXXacbXencifbXbaedbcledbcmfXkfkebbbqaegdbrsfcdtbkXnXtbkllfbdmmccggffmbbffoomlXmdggueeecfeXdaddbcfXmgdXfcmaaXbdcfidXfmcfkXifXdhdiccegmeevXgjnwllWwddwWbbbeXwwXfXffgkcafducfbbeeXagismbc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 478,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 01100111 100 1100011111 1111010111 0101011101 0101011101 1111011101 1111110111 0101101111 1111010111 10110000111 0101001101 1100010111 1101011111 11000110010 0101000100 1101010101 1101110001 1101010111 1111010101 11010001001 10010111101 1101010111 1111010101 01010010101 1101011111 1101010011 11001011110 0111110101 0100111111 11011111110 1101010101 1101010111 1101110100 11001010101 1101011111 01110110100 1100011111 0011110111 1011110101 0110011111 10010100101 1001110111 101000010 1111111011 0100110111 1101110101 01001111111 1011100101 01000111010 1000001 100 1101011111 1101111001 11111101 0111010101 1111010111 1101011111 11010110001 1101111111 1111110111 1101010101 1111010101 01001101111 1101011101 11010011111 10111011001 1100111011 11001110100 1111110100 1001 100 01 1111111100 100 111010010111 100 1111010111 100 1111011111 1111 100 111101 0101111101 0101111101 100 11011010111 0111010111 1101110001 1101011011 10 100 010 0101110101 0101000101 10110001101 1111010111 0101011111 1111001101 1111111100 1111001111 1101010101 1101010001 0100111100 11001111111 1101001101 1101010101 01001011100 0100011111 0101000111 10100101001 1100010011 10011 1011110111 1101010101 0101110101 01110110111 0101010101 1011000101 0111011001 1101000101 11001010100 1101001111 1111000111 0001011101 1110010101 101010111101 1101101101 11010110011 1101011111 11010011111 1 1010001 1110101 10100101 1110101 1110111 1111101 1110101 0011111 101 1011101 1110111 1110101 1010101 1011101 0010011 101 10100100 100 0101001111 1100011111 100100100111 1101111101 1111100100 0101111101 010011101101 1011101 100 1111 11 100 11000111 1111110111 1111110001 11111001001 11110100101 100 1100011101 100 1111111101 0101110101 1110011011 11011111110 11101111101 100 1111101111 10010101011 1001011101 100 0111011111 1111111111 100 1111010101 110111001001 1111010111 100 111111111 1101010001 100 1101011011 111101 100 1101 11001111101 1111110010110 1111010011 1101110101 1011010100 11011100011 1100110101 100 1101111111 1011010111 0101010101 10010010001 1101010001 1011100101 100 10011111111 1111100101 1111110111 11111111010 1010010 1 1010 10110 100111 110101 01110 1010 001001 001001 001001 001001 101100 11101010 101010 1 00110110011001010010 100 11011110111 0101110101 10010101110 11111 100 10101 0101010111 1101111101 0101110100 1111111111 1011010111 1111010001 1011010111 1101010101 1111000101 100 01110101011 1100111111 1010110111 0011011111 1111110111 0101010001 100 1111101111 1101110101 1111110101 1101111111 1101111111 1111010101 100 1111110101 1101110101 1111110011 1111111001 0111010001 1011111101 100 1101011101 1101011111 1111011111 1101100101 1101110100 1111111110 1001010001 0101100101 01101010111 01110011101 01010011111 110010100111 1110010101 1111100111 10111110101 1101011001 11011101010 0101010101 10110010111 1101110001 1111101111 1111011101 0111111101 11101110111 11011010111 0110011101 10100 1 11 100 10 10111000101 0011111001 0101010111 101001011101 1111011111 1101111101 1001110001 0101010101 110101010010 1101010101 0101111111 111111011100 1110111101 1101010101 1100011111 0101011111 1111011101 1001011111 1001101100 111011110101 1001011111 10010010 01010111 110011111 11010101 110101 01010101 01110101 100010101 111101 100 1111111111 1101111101 0101011111 0111011111 1001101100 1111100101 1 01110110010100 100 11111110111 10110010101 10011110101 0101111101 0101111100 0101110101 1100111111 010101001111 0101100101 10011101001 1111111101 1111010111 001001010101 0111010101 10110111001 1101110101 1000011101 0100011100 1101010101 100010000101 1001 1101010101 1001011101 0100010101 0011010111 11000100101 10010111010 0101110001 1001000101 1101011101 1101010111 1101010011 1011011101 1011010101 111010101001 1001110101 11010001001 1101111101 1111011111 11010001001 0101110101 100 1100101000 01010011101 11100110110 1101010111 100 1110110100 100 11011101010 11101010101 1111011111 1111010101 1101110100 11111001110 0111010101 100 1110010001 00101010110 1111011111 11010111111 0111111110 1001010101 1101111101 100 11010100011 1110011101 1111010101 0101 100 111111 1101110101 1101111101 11111110101 111011 100 1100 11010011100 11011011111 10110010 1 1110011000011110010 100 1 111101001 0100101 0010101111 0010111 00110111 1101101 101001101001 1100101 110101 00110101 1101110 1010010101 1110101 11101101 101101011 111101001011 101001001 010101 101000010 00100111 1101101 111111 110101 1001 100 1111010110 00101111101 1101011101 0011111101 10 1011011101 110001101001 10100010101 1101010111 0011110001 1111110101 0101110111 11001010101 10011100101 01100011101 01010010101 1101010111 11101010101 110101 111010010001 01111100101 0101011111 0101111101 1011111101 110111 0100111 1111010001 1001010101 1111010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 17561
  • Average number of words per stanza: 3298
  • Amount of lines: 478
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and, or, enter, i, ah, of, but, more, no, yet, me, moon, down, from, follow, by, his, him, he, thee, to, you, free, its, for, nor, island, away, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, the, of, nevermore, and, down, from, i, to, speed are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines caliban, moon, slave are repeated).

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

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