This is an analysis of the poem Muiopotmos, Or The Fate Of The Butterflie that begins with:

I SING of deadly dolorous debate,
Stir'd vp through wrathfull Nemesis despight,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaaaaXX aXabaXbb cXcdXdaa eXXXXXbb fafXfaXf aXaXaXXXX eeXXeddded edXXeghghX hbbXXaiXXe ededXXeXX aXXXaXXX bXXhbhXX aXaXXXhh hehXhegg adadadjjX XdgdXXfaXa XXXfdXXaX XXXbeXXbXa afXfidiee Xfhfkfii XXXXhXhh hihchcXl mXXXmmXX mhmhmXXXf XfXfXXXaha hXheXXalal a
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,9,10,10,10,9,8,8,8,8,9,10,9,10,9,8,8,8,8,9,10,10,10,9,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,7,10,10,10,9,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010001 10111010010 011110101 1001110101 1101011001 10101010101 1101011011 1111100101 0110110001 1011010101 1101011001 0100011101 1011101001 11110001110 0101001011 110001011 010101011 11100100001 0101011101 11110111 110101000 1100010111 0100100101 011010101 010101111 01001010110 1011011100 1110001010 01010101100 11010101010 1101111111 110100101 01110101010 0101010101 01100010010 01011100101 110010101010 101100011 101011110 00110010010 1111110101 1001011101 10010110101 010110101 010101011 1101010111 10101101 1111010101 1101011101 0101011100 110110001 01000100110 1101110101 110001011 1001010101 110010100001 0111110101 01010111001 1101010101 1101010011 101111001 01010011101 1111110101 0101010101 1101010111 111011111 0101011001 1101010001 1101010101 1111110001 1110000101 10110101 1010100100 011111001 1100010101 0101011101 1111110101 1101000110 11111101001 1110101101 0111010111 1010001101 11110010001 1101110010 01101010110 0101001111 100101010010 11111101100 100111101 1001010101 1101100111 11111101 01011111111 010010101 1101001101 1101010110 111001001010 010101010 11011010010 1110010101 1000111010010 11111011 0101110111 1111010100 110110111 0100110010 11111101101 110101101 1110010111 1111010100 011101001 110011001 0101110101 001110110101 10010101001 1011010010 01010010001 1001010111 1100010101 01011101 111010101 1101001011 0011010101 1101011001 1101010100 1111011101 0101010100 00010100001 10010100101 11101111 0101001101 1101011101 1101110101 10010101 1110100100 11010010010 10011010101 11000110 0011010101 1111001110 011111101 11001110 0001011110 1111000111 1011001011 101001010 1001010101 101001100 1101011010 10111010 111011101 0101101001 0011011101 11011010011 101110011 110111111 110111110 0100101111 1101110101 0011001010 1101000101 1110001010 10111010101 1100010101 1001000101 1111110101 0100101101 111010111 01010101010 1110010011 0111111010 1011110100 11001101010 11001110101 1101010011 1100110 1101011101 110101010 1100010111 1001111011 1001100101 1111011111 0101101101 1110110001 0101001101 0101011011 1101110011 0101000101 1100111100 11000110101 1100110101 1100110101 1001110100 110110100 11111010 1101011101 1111011 11011001000 1101010100 1101010011 1001010101 011111110 1111010011 1111111101 0011111010 11110100100 01010011010 1110011010 101001010 100101010010 010110110101 0111011010010 011111101 111101100 111010100 1111110101 111101011 11011110101 1111011101 1101010110 0110101101 1101011111 1011101 110101011 011111101 1110110101 01010100101 11100110111 1100101001 10110010010 1111110101 1111001101 0111111 1110111 011101110 111110111 111100101 11011111101 111101100 010011110 1001011100 1101010101 010111100010 010100101 1101010010 1101001011 111100101 111101010 0011010111 100111010 1111101011 100101111 0101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0111011100 1101000101 1101011111 0111010011 101010110 0101001101 11001100010 11011101010 101001011 011110111 1101011101 101110101 10010010101 0101010001 10010001001 01001010101 1000010101 1100010101 1011111111 1101010101 101011001 0101011101 0101011101 1011111111 111110101 1011110111 0100011111 011110101 111101101 1101111110 1011000101 1111000111 010111011 0011011100 101111101 01011101001 0101010101 1011011110 1110010101 1110101101 1101011010 0011010110 100111010 01011111010 111101111 11010100110 1101110101 011110101 1101000101 1101001101 1111010101 11010101 010110011 100110110 1001011101 10110110100 0101010101 101111101 1101000111 10010011101 0111110001 1101110101 010101001 1101100011 1001110101 1101110101 1111010101 1111100101 1101011101 010110101 110101011010 1100010101 101111010 010011101 1001010100 1101110101 0101110111 0101010101 010110011 010010101001 11101110 110010111 111001111100 101111001 1101010110 010010101 1101011101 11010100101 1100010100 11111101010 11010010100 1010101010 1000111010 010101001010 10110101101 101100010101 011010011 1001010101 1111001010 01010010101 111010101 0101011101 011101011 1101111101 111010101 0101001101 1110010110 11100100101 10111011 00110010001 11111111101 010101110 1100010100 110101010 11101111001 110001101 10010100100 111101100 100011101 1100011111 1110110111 0010010100 1011010101 1101010101 1100010010 101000010 1110010111 110101001 1101110101 100101111 1101010111 1110110101 0111110100 1101010010 1101001111 010100011 1011101101 1101010010 1011100111 0001101001 1011011010 1111111101 110101111 1101101011 1101010101 101000011 1110111011 1101110101 1001010100 1001100101 11111111 0101011110 1111101001 1101011101 111101101 1101100101 110110110 10110011010 0101001011 1101010101 111011001 0101011111 111111100 010011110 000111101 1110101 1011010101 1001101101 111010101 1011110101 0110101001 1001110010 1101010101 100101101 110101001 1011010011 10011110 1010011011 101110101 0001101101 0110110001 0101010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 51
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 368
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 437
  • 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; of, his, to, her, and, with, she, in, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, to, like, and, the, his, nor, or 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.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase suspition connects the lines.

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  • summary of Muiopotmos, Or The Fate Of The Butterflie;
  • central theme;
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