This is an analysis of the poem The Me Within Thee Blind! that begins with:

I
At the convent doors, full of alarm...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbcdbdbededfgfg cdcdfXfdhihijdjd kekecgcgaj ajjdjdagXgdgdgdkdkcjcjbfbf adadcaca ddllccccaahheeggbb ddeeccaaee ffhhddffgdd ddmm eeffaaccEeiichhEaaeehhddaan naaffcckkd deeeeaaeeeojjaa bbgghhbbaahhbbdXeejj jjggee jjcceeXappjjnnbbhhjjqqggjjb bddkeehhaadd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,16,16,10,26,8,18,10,11,4,27,10,15,20,6,27,14,11,14,12,27,9,17,27,8,18,18,7,9,20,32,8,6,35,33,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 101011001 1110111001 011110011 01110111 0101110101 0101010001 1101000101 1101010101 0111110101 0100011101 1111010111 1011011111 1111100101 1111001111 1111110101 1101110111 111101111 1100010101 0101010101 1101101001 0101010101 01110101100 1001010101 1101010001 1101000111 1101001101 0100110101 1111110101 0101010101 1101010101 1111111110 0110110011 0101111011 0101010111 1101110101 1101011111 1101111011 0111110101 1111111101 1111101101 0101011111 1111010111 1101101111 1111110101 1001010111 0111001010 0101001101 0111111101 1100111111 0101011111 0100011110 0101000101 0101010111 1101010101 0100010011 1100010101 0101010101 0111101101 1101010101 0101010101 0101111010 0111010111 0101010111 0100001001 0111110111 0100100101 1101011101 1111010001 1001001101 1011111101 1101010101 1011000101 1111110011 11001110111 0111010101 0100111001 1111110111 1011110101 1101110101 1110111111 0101111111 0100101101 0111111011 1001011101 0111111101 0101111111 1011010011 0101110111 1011011111 0101010101 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1100111011 0101110101 1111110101 1101111111 01011101001 0111110101 0101001011 1101110101 0111010011 1101010110 0111011101 011110001111 0101010011 1111011101 1111110111 1101110101 0111110101 0101111101 1011111111 1101011111 1111111101 1111010101 0001010101 0011010101 1101111001 0111011111 1101010101 1101110101 1101010101 1011011111 0001110101 1111111111 1111011111 1101011111 0101101101 0101010111 1111110101 1101110101 0110111101 1011000101 1101111111 1111010101 1111111101 1101010111 1101010111 1111010111 1111110001 1101010101 1011110101 1111010111 0101010101 1011110111 1111011111 1111100101 0111111111 0101110111 0111110101 1111111101 111010111 11010100101 1101011111 1111011111 1101111101 1111010011 1111111101 1111111101 1111010111 1101010111 0111011101 1101011011 1011111101 1101011101 1011111111 0101110111 1101110101 1111111111 1011111101 1101101101 01110010111 0001010001 1101110101 1011110101 1101111001 1101010101 1001000111 1111110011 1111110101 0101011111 0101010101 1001011111 1101110100 1101011101 1101011101 0101111101 1111110100 0101110101 0101010001 11101101 0111010111 011110101 1111000101 1111010111 0111011111 0111010111 1101100101 1101111110 1111010111 1011011101 1101010101 1111011101 0101110101 1101110101 1101000111 1111011111 1101011111 0101010111 0101100101 1011111111 11111101001 1111110111 1111010101 1111100101 1101010111 0111011101 1101110101 10110010101 1011010001 11110100101 11001010101 0111011111 1101011100 1100110001 0101111111 1111111111 1111010001 0111010101 10110001001 1101011101 0101011111 1111010101 11010101001 1101110101 0101110011 11001110001 1111110011 1100011011 1101010101 1001110101 0101010101 1001010001 1111010111 1101011101 1111110111 1011011101 1111011101 0101011101 0111111101 1111000101 11000110101 1101011101 1101010101 1111010011 0101011111 1111011101 0111110011 1011001101 1001111111 1111110101 1111010111 1011010111 1101010001 1101110101 1101010101 1101010111 0111000101 1110011111 1101011101 1111110101 1110011101 01011111111 0101111111 1101011111 1111111111 1101111101 1101111101 1111010111 0001010101 1101110111 11001010101 1101001101 1101010101 1001010101 0001110101 1011111101 1101111001 1101110001 1111010101 1111011111 1101011111 1111110011 1110011101 1101100101 1101010001 11010100111 1101011111 1 0111011101 11110110101 1011111101 1111010001 1001011101 11010110101 11010111011 1101010101 1111110001 1111010111 0111001101 1111010111 1011111111 0110011111 0111110101 0101010101 1111010101 11001011101 11010110111 1101010101 1111011111 1111111101 11010011101 11110101011 1110111101 0011101101 1101010111 1011101111 1101011101 0101110101 1101010111 0101010101 1111111111 1111010101 01010100101 1101011101 1101011101 0101110111 10111100101 1101110111 1101011101 10010111111 1011010101 1100111101 1111111111 1101111111 101110110 0101101001 1101000101 1101000101 1111110101 0111110101 1111110101 1101011101 1101110111 1101011101 1111010101 0111010101 1101111101 1001100111 0101010101 1111011011 0011110101 011011111 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  • Amount of stanzas: 36
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 660
  • Average number of words per stanza: 132
  • Amount of lines: 556
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, to, she, in, and, of, it, her, his, me, you, your, i, that, had, as, ', pray, all, gone, some, dream are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, held, and, my, for, i, of, the, in, to, reached, like, are 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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