This is an analysis of the poem Design And Performance that begins with:
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They float before my soul, the fair designs ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbccddXceefddf Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,15,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1 1101110101 11110101110 11101100111 01010101110 11110111010 10001011101 11001100101 11001 1101010 10111101101 1111110111 1101110001 1111011101 1111011101 110101110101 1
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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