This is an analysis of the poem The Soul Has Bandaged Moments that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXXaX XXXX XXXX XbXb aX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,6,4,4,4,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 01110100 1101010 11110111 1101110 011001100 0101010 11000101 01000000000 01010111 0101000000 0111001000 1101010 11010101 1101010 11010000100 110000100 110000111 11110000 01010100 110101 01010101 110001 01010001 111100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; her is repeated.

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

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  • history of its creation;
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