This is an analysis of the poem The Complaint Of An Officer that begins with:
O Heaven above, before whose light
Revealed is every deed and thought,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaabcbabcaaXcdac aefeafage gaehcichi dcecdeeifiXfgiiigi DjaXDabba DjkXDkeXk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,9,9,18,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010111 010100111 0111 10110101 00111111 1101 01011110 10011111 1101 111100101 10010111 1101 11110111 11011110 1101 11011111 01000111 0111 11010101 01110101 1101 10010101 01010101 1111 11011111 11011101 1101 11011101 11010111 1001 11010101 10111101 1101 11100001 11100111 0111 11011111 01111101 1101 11011101 01011101 1111 010100001 11010101 0111 11010111 111101010 1101 10011111 11110111 1111 11110101 110110001 1001 11011111 11110101 0101 11010010 11001001 0101 11010111 110011001 0101 11011111 01110101 0101 11010010 11001001 0101 11010111 11110001 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 352
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 72
- 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.
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