This is an analysis of the poem From Omar Khayyam that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbcX ddbd XbcX eefe X Xaga ggcg ffhf eehe hhah iiXi ddXd ffaf X ffjf eece ccic ckcklmmlNFXX efeXcaacNFXX ibibleelnFXX kikiXooaNFXX bababkkbNFXX ciciihhiNFXX jfjfpaapnfXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 0101010101 0101010111 1011000100 1100010110 1101000111 1101010101 1101110101 1101000101 1001010111 1011100111 1101010011 1101010101 1111000101 1111000111 1001110111 1101111101 1 1001010000 1101100111 11101001 01010101101 1101010101 0111010111 111110011 11001110101 1011110111 0111110101 11001010101 1001011101 1001011101 1001011111 1101010111 01110100101 1101010111 0101011101 1101010110 1101011100 11110100101 1001010111 1111011101 1111110001 1111110001 1111010011 10011010101 0101010111 1101011111 0111000101 1101110101 1111110111 1 1001110101 1111010111 1111000101 1111000101 1101111101 1101001111 1101010111 1011011101 111011111 0101110101 1011010101 1111111101 01010101 11010111 01011001 110100101 01011111 10010101 10110101 01010101 110111010 110111 1111100100 111101 011001110 11110101 111110110 10111100 10010001 11010101 110100101 11010101 110111010 110111 1111100100 111101 01010001 10110111 011111011 10110101 10001101 11110101 11110111 01010101 110111010 110111 1111100100 111101 01011001 11010101 110010111 11010101 11010110 1101011 11110101 01010101 110111010 110111 1111100100 111101 11010111 101101101 00110011 11010111 11011101 11110111 11100101 01010101 110111010 110111 1111100100 111101 11010101 11011101 011100101 100100101 10010101 110100101 11110101 11010001 110111010 110111 1111100100 111101 01010101 11110101 10010101 11010101 011111010 10110111 10010101 1100101010 111111010 1011011 1111100100 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 147
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; of, and, his, we, sans, dust, old, ' are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and, to, how, her, the, old are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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