This is an analysis of the poem Leonora that begins with:

LEONORA, Leonora,
How the word rolls--Leonora-- ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcac abddbbbab aeefXbfggaf addXeddeXhiibbddhjjah abiibeeijjibjbjkkekkgjah
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,9,11,21,24,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010 10111010 1010111 10100101 0010101 11111010 11101 11111010 1010001 1010101 0110001 1010101 1011101 1011110 10101010 01101 11111010 1110101 1010101 1110111 10111100 1001111 1011101 10110110 10101110 1010111010 10101 10011010 1010111 1011101 10111010 10111110 1010111 1011101 11101110 01101110 00100101 1010111 1111101 1010101 0110101 1011100 1011101 1011101 1110011 10101001 11111010 10011 11111010 1111111 1111101 0010101 1000101 10110110 10111110 1110101 1111101 110001 1011101 1111111 10010101 0011011 1011101 1001111 10100001 1110101 1110101 1010001 10101010 01111010 11101010 00101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 445
  • Average number of words per stanza: 77
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; leonora, and, last, all are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, all, when, on, with are repeated.

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

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