This is an analysis of the poem It Would Never Be Common—more—i Said that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abbb Xbcb aded faec aaXa dgXg cXcdc XfaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 0110010111 100110 10010010 111111 10011111 010101 11111100 1111001 11111101 011101 11010011 110101 11111101 011101 01010101 111001 11110101 110101 010010111 1100101 11001101 010111 11001100 1111001 1111 1111 110101 11010011 011101 01010101 011101 11110001 110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the are repeated.

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

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