This is an analysis of the poem A Modern Apostle V that begins with:

SUMMER passed by, and Autumn; Winter came
With grey cold days and black unpitying nights, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abababcc dededeff cgcgcghh ihihihee cbcbcbjj khkhkhll kmkmkmjX jcjcjchh hchchccX icicicjj jmjmjmmm gbgXebjj kjkjkjaa mgmgmgff hihXhijj enenenjj cjcjcjjj njnjnjff chchchnn jjjjjjaa jcjcjcfX beXebeff ijijijcc fnfnXnee cXcgcgii hohohXcc ipipipXXXcicicipp
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011110101 0111111001 1101010101 0111110101 00111001001 11010010101 0111000101 1111011011 10110111101 11001111101 1001110001 10001001111 010010110001 0011111011 11001110101 1011011101 1001110111 11010101110 1011011011 01011101110 1101010101 01110001110 0101111101 1101000111 1101010111 1111101101 0101011101 0111010001 1111000101 1101011111 11001010111 1111110001 1101010111 1101000111 1101110101 0011000100 0101111111 01011010100 1111100101 1111100111 10111110001 1101110111 1100110101 1101110111 1101110100 1111010111 0101010101 01010111001 11110101010 110111101 010101010110 1101011101 01011101010 0101011111 1101110101 0111011111 1101110011 11010101010 0101111111 11010001110 1111110101 10110100010 1101110101 01011010010 11111100110 0101011111 01110111110 1111010001 11111111010 1101010101 10010101010 1111110110 11010110110 1111011101 11000101010 1101000101 00110111010 0101010111 1101101101 1011101101 1001010101 0111110001 1001111101 1001010111 1101010101 1101010001 1101111101 11110111001 11001101110 0111011110 01010101010 0101011100 11011101010 11110100101 11011010101 1101110101 1101010111 1011110001 1111010101 1101110111 1101010101 0111010011 0101011111 01010011001 1111110111 11011111010 1100010111 01100100010 0101010101 01110101110 1101111101 1111010111 1101110101 0101011001 1111000101 1101110111 1011000111 010010101 0100010101 1111111011 1111011111 0111010101 1111111001 0111011111 1011111101 1011110101 1101010111 0111110101 1110011011 1101010111 10011100111 1111110111 0101111001 0110001101 0111001101 1111111111 1111111101 0101111100 1101110111 1101110011 1011110101 1001011111 1101110111 1111010101 1110010111 1111010111 1101011101 1111110101 1101111111 1111111111 1101011111 1101011101 1111010101 1101000101 10010010101 1111010101 0100110101 0101011111 1101000101 1001011101 1111011111 11001110101 1001111001 1101111101 1101110001 1111011101 0111010001 1001110101 1101110001 1101010101 1101110110 0111010101 1101110011 0101111111 1111110101 0101010101 1101110101 1101010001 1111010101 1111010101 1111110100 1001110101 1111010101 01011101111 1011111111 0111010101 1011110111 0111011111 11111100100 1101010101 010100110001 1101011101 1101000101 0111110101 1110010001 1111110110 11111100011 01001110100 1011110111 1011111101 1011111111 0111010111 1101001101 11001010001 1101011100 0011110101 1110011101 0101110111 1011110101 1111111111 0101010011 0101010011 0101111111 0101010101 11010110101 11010111010 11010110111 0111000101 11010011101 1101011101 1101010101 1101010101 11010110101 1001010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 28
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 364
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 224
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, some, his, no, my, i, you, of, she, her, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, no, of, she, the are repeated.

    The author used the same word 'and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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