This is an analysis of the poem He ate and drank the precious Words that begins with:

He ate and drank the precious Words -
His Spirit grew robust - ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXb aaXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 010101 11111111 110111 11010101 100101 11011100 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he is repeated.

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

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