This is an analysis of the poem Cadet Grey - Canto Iii that begins with:

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Where the sun sinks through leagues of arid sky,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a ababacacc X dededfdff X gXghgegee X ihXhigigg a gbgbgegee a hjhjhXhaX X ececebebb X Xkckcdcdd X lclclelee k eaeaeaaaX a cacachchX X fcfcfgfgg X bcbcbeXee X gcgcgXghh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1011110101 10111010101 1011010101 1011001101 1111110101 1011010101 1011010111 10110101001 110111010111 1 11010100111 0101010101 01001011101 0101000101 1001110111 1101001101 1111010101 0100010111 01110101011 1 1100010101 0101010100 0101010001 1011011101 1111110111 1111000101 1101000101 0101011101 1101111101 1 1100010101 1111110101 1101110111 1101010111 0101001111 0100011101 0101111101 0111011001 0101110101 1 1111010111 1101011101 1101110111 0101110111 1101011111 1101011101 0101010101 0101011101 1010010111 1 1101010101 1111010101 1101110101 0111011101 0100110111 0100010110 0111011101 0111111101 1011110101 1 1110011101 1001011101 1111010001 1101010101 1101111101 0101010101 1111010111 1110011101 0111011111 1 1111110111 1101110111 1111011001 1101110101 1111111101 1111011101 11011100111 0011011011 0101111101001 1 1101010111 1101000101 1101001101 11111101001 1001110101 0111000101 0101010101 1111010111 1101011111 1 1101011001 1101001111 1011011100 1011010111 0111010011 1101010111 1100110101 10101011101 1111011111 1 1111011001 1101100111 1101101101 0111000111 1111010111 1111011111 1101111101 0111010101 1001101111000 1 1111010101 010001100010 1101010111 111111001010 11010100111 0101110101 1101111101 01110100101 1101011101 1 10011101101 1100111101 1111010111 0111110011 1110010011 1111011101 1111001101 0110111111 0101011101 1 1111111111 0101000111 1101011101 0101000101 0101011101 0101010110 1001011111 1101111101 1111010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 28
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 140
  • 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; of, where, and, you, your are repeated.

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

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