This is an analysis of the poem Ogrin The Hermit that begins with:

Ogrin the Hermit in old age set forth
This tale to them that sought him in the extreme ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abc debfghijk ljchmcn khcccnnnndi chojdbhcbnj fjcjhcncgmnkapjqejersgmchcjln njdpnn cjecgcdknjXcjjneoXnrnaigkdnpidrdXb nnnncrak hckdkocjnhgXmcedosgceooj ndhrcej kjcecgXnnmcanhcXdjkhq
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,9,7,11,11,29,6,34,8,24,7,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001001111 01001110001 1011111101 1001111111 1101010101 1101110001 1111110111 0110110001 11101000101 11011101000 1111010111 1100110111 1100110100 1110011000 1101110001 111010011 1101011101 01111010101 1111011101 1110010101 1101110101 0101011111 0101000111 1101010001 10111100101 01110101001 1001011100 0101010101 11110101111 1101010001 0111011111 0101010101 1100011100 11010000111 1101100101 00101010111 1101010101 1111110101 11110100101 1101011101 0101010101 1001110101 10101010011 1100110101 01000111111 1011010100 01010010111 1011010101 0101010101 0111010101 1011010111 1011001101 11001011111 1111011001 1101010101 0100010011 0111011101 1111010101 1101110101 1111010001 1100010101 10010010111 0101111111 11000010101 0101010011 1101011101 1101011001 1101010101 11110101010 0010011101 0101010111 1001010111 1111010101 010000101 1100010101 0110010101 1110110101 11011101011 1111111111 0111010011 1111010111 0101110001 1001010101 1111010101 10000100101 01001011011 10001011110 1101001101 1001010111 0111010101 1011111011 100100101011 11000101010 1111011110 1011110111 1001110001 1111000101 1101111111 1101001101 11001111101 1001110101 0100011101 11001010101 0100110001 10110101111 1011110001 1100011101 1111110101 1011110101 10001010101 0101010111 0111111101 1101111101 100110101010 1101000101 1011000101 01001010101 10101011101 1101110111 1111011001 10010001101 1101111101 1010110101 11111001010 1001000111 1001000011 1010011101 0111010011 1110101011 110011010100 1101110111 1101010101 11110010111 1111010101 1111000100 0101011101 11011011111 1111101101 1111101101 1100110100 010010100010 1101110101 1101010101 1011010101 0101011111 10010010001 1011010101 0101110111 0111010101 11100100111 1101011101 0100010111 1001011111 1111110101 10111000111 00100010110 1110110001 11010101010 1011010111 0101000101 10010110101 1011000101 01101010111 10111000101 1111110101 1101111101 0101001101 1101101111 1101000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 583
  • Average number of words per stanza: 105
  • Amount of lines: 169
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of, and, their, her, that, as are repeated.

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

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

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