This is an analysis of the poem Severer Service Of Myself that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXaX XXXb XcXc bdXX XabX XdXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 10010011 10000001 0101010 1111100 11010011 1011010 11110101 111110 1101011100 001001 01001010100 010001 01110101 110101 110110 1010100010 0101101000 010111 11110010 0110100 1111000010 010001 01010100 1101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; had, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is 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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