This is an analysis of the poem The Lonely Life that begins with:

The morning rain, when, from her coop released,
The hen, exulting, flaps her wings, when from...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefddgdhhihjdkljcXlmdadlnXjllaglll ajnlbhdXejaldbaeljXadagdjobagda dijdidihglakmhdojjXadhidojfXihddgdXjef
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 37,31,38,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101100101 0101010110 0100010011 11010101001 1101010111 1101010101 1111010101 0101000101 0101100101 1101010101 0111111101 0100011101 1111111111 1111010111 1001011100 1111010111 0100111100 01000100101 1101010100 11010110101 1101010101 0111001101 0101110101 1001010101 1101011111 0101100101 1111010101 1011010111 0101010101 1101011101 1111010111 0111010101 1111011101 1100111101 0101011101 10010100111 0100010101 1111111001 1111111101 0100011101 1101100111 10001001101 1101110111 1101000101 1001010110 0101010101 0111010101 1101010101 11011101001 0101111101 1000011101 1111111101 0101010111 1111010101 1011010111 1101110110 0111111101 1011010101 1101000101 11001010101 0100010101 0101011101 1111000101 0101000101 0101100001 1101010111 1101010001 1111110001 101011101 0110011101 0101111001 0111001011 0101111001 0111000111 0101110101 0101010101 0101100101 1001010101 01010010101 0101011100 0101111111 010100111 1111110101 0101110001 0111010101 1001010011 0110010101 0101111101 0101110100 0101010001 0111010101 0111111101 1101110011 1101110101 1111001101 01010101100 0111000111 0111010101 1011010101 1101110101 1111000101 1101101101 1111011100 0101010101 1101011001 0111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1520
  • Average number of words per stanza: 273
  • Amount of lines: 106
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; when, and, of, or, it are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines still is repeated).

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