This is an analysis of the poem Robert Davidson that begins with:

I grew spiritually fat living off the souls of men.
If I saw a soul that was strong...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdedafcXgeXgXXaf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111000011010101 01101111 11001101001 0100101110 1111101101 10101101110 11010010101 101111 101010101 100111101001 101001 010101001010 010011111010 11100001101010100 011001010 100101001 10111001 010010 0110101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 736
  • Average number of words per stanza: 129
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; i is repeated.

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