This is an analysis of the poem From 'A Feast For Wormes' that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbaa X bbXXcccXdXeXbbbbdXaaffXXbbXdeegXhhggXbXgcchhXaXb X ccXXXXiiaaXdbbcXXcaaffccccddjjXdccaaXXaaggXXiiXXiiXXXXkkii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,48,1,58,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0100 010001001 11101001 011111001 11010101 101 110100010001 10010110001 11111101010 1100010101 10001101101 1101001100 0101011101 11011011010 0111101111 01011101010 10110101010 110100111100 11110111010 110110010010 0101011101 1101110001 11110101011 011110101 1110110101 0101110101 1111010101 11011100101 1101010111 1111100101 1101110101 1001111001 0111010101 1101010101 0111111101 11011100100 1101111110 1101011101 1111011001 1001010101 0101111001 10001011101 100010101100 0111010101 11110100110 01110001110 1101010001 010110011 0101010101 1010010001 1000011110 11011100001 11010110100 1001100101 1001 01010111010 11010111110 1111010111 1101011101 110111111101 11111100100 1101011101 11010101001 1111100101 1111110111 1111011101 1101110101 1111111111 1101010111 11101100101 11111111110 11010101110 1111010111 1111110111 11010110011 1101001111 1101010011 111101011010 11010101010 1100100011 1101110101 1101010011 1111010101 1101001111 1101001101 1101010101 11010111001 1111001101 11010110101 11010101111 1100101101 1111001101 11010100101 1101010101 01001000101 0110010101 0111011100 11100111000 11101111000 0101001101011 01010010101 010100110 1101011110 0101110001 0101110010001 10001101010 110100111010 10001101010 01010101100 10001101001 1001011101 1111011101 11001011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 820
  • Average number of words per stanza: 144
  • Amount of lines: 114
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; nor, and, his, in, he, thy, or, for, your, cries, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, he, can, or, nor, such, their, it are repeated.

    The author used the same word the 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 favour is repeated).

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