This is an analysis of the poem L'Homme Moyen Sensuel that begins with:

‘Tis of my country that I would endite,
In hope to set some misconceptions right....

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabbXcXXddXaeXaabbffddbXccggbbbbhhhhcc XXidcccXjjcXiiddXkff dhdikklXXkddkkXXee mmbXddiijgXaXXbbffbbddbjbbbbcchhffcXnnoocc pphhee cceekkffdXbXaXbk eebbXkkXbb ffddnnbbddXXkkqqhhkkhhbbXdeerrqiX ddjgssttaaXlddjjkkhhqX tXbbggdddXhhflfXffddkkddkkXcXXaX cc Xd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,20,18,42,6,16,10,33,22,32,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011011110 0101100101 110110111010 11110101010 1111101010101010 100101010100 111111001000 11010011000 01011101010 11011100010 0001010110 0111111111 1111010101101 11010000100 010110010100 110111110101 1101000100 010001000111 010001001010 1101001110010 10111101011100 010101000101 010100111101 11010111000 110101110100 110000101000100 11011101110 101101011110 111101001010 11010111010 10011101010 01110101010 11011101010 010110001010 111100010100 0111001010100 1100100011100 111011010100 110101010000 0101010011000 10110100010100 01110101110 1011010101 1011110101 11111101010110 11111110100 110101001111 1101110111 0101101100 100100111000 01110101010100010 110001010100110 11110101010 1101001001010 1101001 1011011101 11010010111001110 010101001010 011111010111010 110111011110 11011110010 010010101011110 11001000100 101101111001 111111010101101 110111010100 010101111101000 110011111010 01011101010 11000110010 1010101101 0101010101 10010101000 11010110110 1001010101 1111000101 1101011101 11001111001 11011101110 01010011010 11010111010 11011100010 010101111111010 10010101010 1101110101 1001011100100 11010111100 1111111110 11101011 10101011 101101001010 11010101010 110110101010 01011101110 11010100001 1101000101 1011010100 110111010101 11010111110 11001011111 1110100101010 110101010010010 111110 11010101010 110111110101010 11111101010 11000101010 11010011010 11111101010 11110111010 1111010101 0101110010 001100101111 110101011110111 1101011101 1101010101 0101111100 1101010101 1101010001 1111010101 0101010101 0101001010101 1111111011 1101010101 11010111010 101011111011 0101011101010 10011101010 110100100110 0111110101010 11110101110 11010110110 11110111110 10111111010 01010101010 010101000 1010000100101 1001010110 110111011011 01111100010 1110110101 1101110111 11000101110101010 11100101010 01010101010 11110100011 1101001111011 111111101100 11011110111111 11001011101011 11111010010 11011110010 10110101010 11100101110 0101111100 10111010101 11010100110 110111111100 10111101110 1111010101 011011011010 010010101111 100011101010 01111111010 01011101111001 0101110101 01110111010 1100101101010 1101111111010100 10101010010100 101010 00110111001110 1101000 11001010100 111010111010 01100001010 1101110101 1011011101 111111110101 1101000101 1101111111 11111111010010 10111100110 1101110101 1000100011111 1101010111 0101010100 0101011101 011100010111 11000101010 11010111010 111110101010 11010010010 110000111110110 01010100110101011 110101000010 111101001010 0100101100011 0101010111 1101001101 0011110101 010011111011 10010110111 11110111111 11010111110 110111001110 11010111110 11010101110 0111110110 1101010010100 110001010100 010100100010 00100101010 01001111010 010100111010 1101000111010 111111100110 10110011100 11001011111 11110101010 110111001110 110100111010 10110101010 1100010101 1101001101 0101111100 1101010111 11111110100 1100101001001 11110111010 11010101110 111101111100 01000101011101000 111101011000 10011111000 10111100100 1100011101 11010111110 11010101110 11110101000 10010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 935
  • Average number of words per stanza: 164
  • Amount of lines: 241
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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, from, it, these, sans, note, i, as, of, your, that, one are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines touch, him, ones, 'em are repeated).

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