This is an analysis of the poem Aurora Leigh (Excerpts) that begins with:

[Book 1]
I am like,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcdefghiabgcXfhgjhklbafjkjmaegfggnaioclbmihcnoodjhpgikXjhjghemhdgfgihmlgikjioglbjbigbbakXofeqbbbilniieieaigpXgdbipggoaergbfigrqhkbcbqgickalqg X mhfbgiegibbgihXilbnbkogijakqkedgjboegofiqebhjjqbebpbggabigeomjhhfigjjjgjeoebXcahjbjob
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 143,1,85,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11 111 1111110101 10010100101 01001010111 1111011101 1101001101 1110110101 0101011111 1101010011 01101110001 01111111100 01011100101 0111011111 11010011111 111111111101 1111110111 1111010101 1101110101 1101110101 1101000100 1001110101 1101111101 01010101101 0110111101 11110100111 1101010111 0100010011 1111010111 0110011001 1111110111 01101001101 0101010011 1101111111 1110011111 0110111100 11000100101 1101010101 11001110101 0100010111 1101010101 1111010001 1111110101 1111010101 0101110111 1100110101 0100010100 1101000101 1001110101 1011011101 0100010001 01011111010 0111011111 0101110101 1111010101 1101111101 0111110101 1111110101 01001111111 1101111111 1111110111 1111001111 1011010011 0111100101 0101011101 0101111100 1111110001 1101010111 0101010111 1111010101 0101110111 01010100101 110111001001 1111110101 0101100101 0111011111 0111010101 1011010101 01001011101 1101011111 1111010101 01110101001 01110101001 0111010101 1100010011 1011011111 1101010101 0101011101 01010101001 1111110011 11010 11111 01011101001 0101111111 1111110101 01010101010 0101010101 0010000111 01110010001 00101011101 0111000100 0111010101 0101010101 0111011101 1111000101 01000010011 0111001101 01010010001 01010100111 0101111001 0101010101 1111011101 11011010111 0101110 101 01110111001 1111011101 1011011011 1101010101 1011110101 11111100101 0101110111 1100111101 10100010101 1111111011 1111110101 1100010111 1101110101 1111010100 01110 101110 0111011111 1000111111 1011110101 1111110111 1111111001 010100011001 0111011101 1101010101 1101011101 10111110111 1111011111 1111011101 11 0101010111 01110001001 0111000101 1100010100 11111001001 0111010100 1111111100 0101010001 1101010101 1101110101 01000101010 0101010101 00101110101 1111110111 010010101001 00100010101 1101110101 110010100111 01000011100 00110000101 1001011101 11001010101 010010100101 0111011111 11001011101 1111010101 1100110100 0111001011 010100101010 011010111 11100100111 11111101111 1111010100 01010001001 01001010101 0110011101 1101010100 0101100101 1101011111 01000100100 11011011101 0101010 100 1101110101 1101010001 11110110101 11010110101 1101110101 11011110100 01111111010 0111010101 1111110011 11010101111 010100110100 1101111111 1101111101 1101010111 1100111101 1101110111 1110101101 0101011111 111110001001 0111011101 0101010001 0100011101 11010001001 1001110101 11010010001 10101110101 1111010111 10110100100 11111011101 1111011111 1011111 111 0111001101 1110110101 0111111101 0101010101 01011110111 11110001111 1101011101 10111101011 1011010110 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3318
  • Average number of words per stanza: 593
  • Amount of lines: 229
  • 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; and, love, then, wept, life, of, she, my, through, as, in, with, them, me, good, we, fail are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words love, ten, a, with, of, and, we are repeated.

    The author used the same word book at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases through, good connect the lines.

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