This is an analysis of the poem A Poem On The Last Day - Book Ii that begins with:

Now man awakes, and from his silent bed,
Where he has slept for ages, lifts his head;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddaaee aaffgghh cciiccjjkk aallaaiiffaaffffaa jjaa iiaacckkaa aammbbhh kkccaahhaa nnbbbbkkooee bbccaaeeeeooaajj hhaaaamm kkaaccllb bbbeeee bbaahhpfooaaccee ffff XXhheeaa hhaaXlddeX ccccbbaabb ffooaXeeaajXccee ffaa nnaaeXbb jjccjjhhaaiinn cceeaahhcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,8,10,18,4,10,8,10,12,16,8,9,7,16,4,8,10,10,16,4,8,14,20,8,12,4,6,12,4,8,10,8,6,24,8,8,14,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11100100101 1111110101 1101001100 1101001101 10001010101 0101001101 0101010101 0101110101 1101110101 1111110101 1101110101 1101110101 0101010001 1011000101 1101011001 0111010101 0111110101 1101010001 01110110101 11110011101 1100110011 1101110101 1101010111 010010100001 1101010101 0101010101 1001110101 1001000101 01010100101 0101010101 1011010101 1101010101 1111010001 0101110001 0101010111 1101010101 1101110101 1011001111 01011100001 0111010101 1101010101 1101001101 0101111111 1111011101 0101110111 1101100101 0101010001 1111010101 1101110101 0101110101 10010111001 11010010101 0101010101 11010100101 11010101001 11010101111 1101010101 1111100101 0101000101 1111000101 1111011101 00101110101 1011000101 1101000101 0101010101 1101000101 1011110101 1101010001 0101010001 0101001101 11010101001 1111110101 0111111111 0101110001 1101000101 11011010111 110010001001 01011110101 01111001001 0101110101 11000111001 1101000101 1111000101 1101000101 1011110001 01010101001 0101001101 0111010001 1111110101 1101010101 1101110101 0111010111 1111101101 1101110101 1100010001 1101111101 1011010101 1101110101 1101110111 1101001101 1001010101 0101000101 0101111101 0101110101 11010101011 01011111001 0111010001 1101010101 1101011111 1101110101 1011111101 0101110101 11011100101 01110101010 01001011101 1101110101 1111010111 0101000101 1111010101 1101010011 01010011101 0101010111 1111011101 1011011101 1001100101001 1011010111 01111111001 11010101001 11110011101 0101010101 1111010001 0100010101 0101111101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1111100111 1111111101 110111110010 11001110101 1111110101 11010010101 1101010111 1111000101 1101010101 1111110111 1111001101 1101010101 1101010101 10101010111 0101010001 1111010001 0101110101 0111000101 0111010101 0101010111 1001011101 0101110101 0101010101 11100000101 1011001101 1101010101 110110010001 1101010101 11001001100 0101110101 11001110101 1011010001 1001010111 0111011110 1101011101 1101011101 1101011101 0101011101 1110111101 01010010101 0111010111 01001010101 0101011101 1010001101 1101110101 0111100101 0111000101 0111010101 1101010101 10110010101 1111011101 1011110101 1101011101 11010100101 01011101001 1111001100 0101111001 1111111111 1101000101 11010010101 01001110101 1101010101 1101110101 11110100111 10111101001 1011010111 1101010101 1101001101 1101010101 01010101010 1101110111 1111110111 0101010101 1101010101 1101110111 11011010101 1101011011 1001110101 0101011111 1011110111 1101010011 11010010101 1110110101 1101010101 1001001111 0101110101 11001011101 0111010101 1111100101 100011010101 1011001101 1011010101 1001010100 0101010101 0101010101 01110101101 1101010001 1001010101 10001110101 1101110101 1001010111 0101010101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010111 110010101001 0111010101 1101111101 11101010101 1101110101 11001001101 1010010101 1101100101 0101010101 1001010100 1101110101 1100010101 0101010101 11010001001 1101110101 10001010111 0111010101 1101110111 1111010101 1100101110101 1101010101 1011011101 1111110101 0101011101 0101011100 11110011001 1111110101 1101000101 11001101101 11001110111 1001010101 0111010101 1101011101 01010111101 1111110111 0101010101 1101010101 0101000101 1011000101 100101110101 1101110101 1101001101 111001010101 0100100111 1101010101 1011010101 1111010001 0101010101 1001011101 1111011101 0111010101 10001111111 10011111001 1101110001 1100010101 1001000101 1101011101 1101000101 1101011001 1101110101 1111101101 1101000101 1100110101 1100110101 1111010101 1101011001 1111110101 1101010001 1101001101 11110110101 0011010101 1100010101 1111010101 10011100101 11111100101 1101011101 11011100101 1101001101 1101111001 0101110001 11011011101 1101011101 11010110111 1101110101 0101110011 1101010101 1101010001 1101000101 1111010101 01001011101 110100101001 11110101001 1101010101 1111010101 1011001101 1101000111 11111111001 01101010011 1101110101 1101110111 1101110101 0111010001 11001011111 1011110011 1101110111 1001010101 1101011101 0101110101 11111100101 11111101001 1111010101 1001010101 1111111101 1001010101 1101011101 1101001001 1111100101 1101010110 1101010101 0101110001 1011110101 1111110001 01110011001 1111000101 110010010101 1011000101 1101010101 0011000101 0101110101 1101000101 1011110101 1111000101 1111010101 0111010011 1111010001 01010010011 1101010001 0101010101 11111101010 10111001010 1111011101 1010001101 1011010001 0101010101 1101000101 0101110101 1111111101 1101000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 39
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 438
  • Average number of words per stanza: 77
  • Amount of lines: 390
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; i, to, his, in, her, and, of, their, your, what, that, most, at, my, who, or are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, or, the, here, to, on, now, whose, who, not, how are repeated.

    The author used the same words how, o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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