This is an analysis of the poem Julian At The Mysteries that begins with:
But when he found himself in darkness,
in the earth's awful depths,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXbcXXabdecbXXXXbaafbdfXXXeXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101010 001101 00100101 11001001011 01001 011001010101 1010010011 11101 0101011 01010010111 0111110 01111110100 01011101 1011101010 01011110101001 0110100 11110111 011010100 01101111 10001001000101 0101011001 01011 1011111001 110101010 01111111 1011111 110101010 1111010 0011101101 010001011 01100101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1167
- Average number of words per stanza: 215
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; to, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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