This is an analysis of the poem Near Perigord that begins with:

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You'd have men's hearts up from the dust...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXc XbdbXXXXce fXghiXfcXhgeXjXklihhimiiXhkbekkX XXbXhl mXmibfXhiiXhcgig XXiiXXXXil bX dbmkbXhhgXeXm XaXbckgXmkX bXcXiecaghfmk XXXmbnhkbk cXkgbXgdc mkidcenchXghkX XXXXiXXaXi icmibdabbX XXXliXkbhbi baXjX X XichhXi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,10,32,6,16,10,2,13,11,13,10,9,14,10,10,11,5,1,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 11111001 111101010 1011101010111 1101011101 1011010110 111111111 0111010101 1101001001 110101110011 1101111110 111111100 11100101100 1101110010010 111 1001001 100110100 010011111010 010010010 101011101011100 1111010100 1001010101 111100011001 0101110101 11010111010 1111010110110 1101001101 10011010100 11110101011 1011100100 1101010111 1111110001 1011110101 1111110101 1111001101 01110110101 11111101001 11110 11101 1011 1011 1101010 1011 010111 111111 1111111101 1011011111 10111101010 11010010100 0101111100 11011101010100 010011010111010 111111101 11011101010 10010100010 0101110101 10110101010 1100110101 0101111101 1100101111 11011101010 0001001000101 0100010011 0101000100 1111010101 01010010110 10011111010 1101010001 111010 10 1111010100 1001111111 10010101010 1111010101 1111010100 1111001100 1100111001 1101011100 01010100 1011111000 110101101 00011001101 00101011001 1001011001 1101101101 1101010100 11011111100 100100111010 11010010010 01111111010 110011101 11111011010 1111011 11110101101 1 1111011111 11001011100 110101110111 10011001111010 1001001011011 11010101010 1101011100 100101011100 001101 10111101100 1101010101 1001110010110 00101 11010011100 100100101010 10010011010 10010111111 0101011001 1011010101000 1001000101011 1001 11011011101 1101011 110100 00111111010 11111001100 1111101010100 11001101010 1001001010 10010011101010 010011111 0101010101 11110111010 11010110110 1011010110 01110010101 011110110 1011010101 01001100100 01010101010 111101110011 1011 1001001 1111010101 1101011100 1011010111 101001010 1011011011 10010101001 1000111110 1101011 100010101111 11010111110 11110101010 1111100111 0100110101100 1101 1101 11110111110 10111 11111 111101011111 11110101010 10010101111 11010111010 100101 11010101 0101010100 1111011101 1011110111 1111011111 0111011011 1101011111 11011111 1111011101 11110 1 010001110100 101110011 1101111111 11110111010 10110111010 00111011010 11110110011 1011010 1101010101 0101110111 1111110101 11111011111 11110111111 11111111 1111111111 1001010100 1110010100 11111111001 111010100 11110111110 11110110110 1101000101 01010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 424
  • Average number of words per stanza: 77
  • Amount of lines: 195
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; you, in, of, and, his, to, as, maent, he, ', that, love, your, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, there, is, no, the, 'say, she are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ', person are repeated).

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