This is an analysis of the poem An Anthem Of Earth that begins with:

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Immeasurable Earth!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abXcXdecfegbccbfecXbhXdfbijXXXXbjkXflgmcnn o XbncccnpifqXdkX frqcfccbbcXnpXcpkfmmnnccXoeXmXllpfcXbpcrffbnsfbtnpolcf NfngXmbneXllrXmocheinnXuejmsfnqnXnXccnlmaXXXfnkXkXcoccdlNfbcckXbopknfjbmn apbpnlmnfcopmecjtvghbpfmgmedpgcqhXclcpdbcXqmXXcmecmgXca npnaw
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,42,1,15,54,73,55,61,37,69,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10 010101 101111000010 10001101001 1101010100 10010010111 0101010101 0101011100 1101010011 1111011001 0100011011 0101110111 0110110001 0111010111 0001001111 11110010101 1100110101 0101010011 010010101010 111101001111 10101010101 1101000111 01001011000 1001111111 0100110111 1101111101 1101001001 1111010111 010011 001100 0111011110 110100 01001011010 1111010101 010111010 1 01011111001 1101000101 1001100111 1001011111 1100110111 11010111101 1101010001 10 01000100 1011110101 1101110111 0111010101 010101 0111100001 1011110111 111010011111 0101010101 11010100101 0101110 010101010 1110111101 1100010100 0100 0010100101 1101110100 111110111010 1111101101 11010100111 1111001101 110011111000 1101010001 0101010101 0101010111 1111001000 0101110111 1111010100 0101010110 110100100011 11110011100 1011111100 11111011 10101010 100010 1110011 11111011 10101011 1110101010 1110 10101110 1011001010 0110100010 100110 111101010 10101110110 01010 10010010001 11100010011 1101010101 111111110 1110 0010100100 10010100 1111110100 001011100101 101100110101 1010110010010 1011011111 1101011101 10110101011 1001101000010 110101 1101010111 0101011111 11010001001 10010 010101010010 00101 0010100101 1111100101 0111010011 1101111111 1011010010 0111101111 11111001111 1111010111 1111110101 11010100100 0111010001 1111010 11101101010 0101010110 111101 01101110111 0111110111 11001011111 1011010101 1111 0101010100 1011 0101010 11110100101 1011010101 1011011111 1111111111 01111010010 1111011110 10011100111 01011111010 1001110111 1100100 01110111 10110111000 01010 11010110010 10010110111 11010101010 1101000101 10101111101 100101011100 11010111010 1101110100 11100110101 1001000101 01101001110 11111101010 1111000100 1111111000 10001010101 01011101001 10001100100 10011000101 1101110111 1101110101 0010100101 1101110101 11100001011 1011010111 10101101001 0101111100 1111 1101 0011011101 111101010 11000110100 1100010111 1011100101 0101010101 1111111111 1101010101 00101 0010100101 101101101000 111101 11010110111 1101010111 1111010101 1101010111 101000011101 11011111111 011010111 11010010101 1011000101 1111010100 10101010011 0101001 10110011101 1111110 11110100101 00101011111 010101 1111010111 1100010101 110101 101111 10110100001 0101100111 0101010101 1111010101 1111000101 1001110101 101100 101101010 0101001 1101011100 111101 1101010 1011 10000101100 1011001101 1101110001 10001000101 000010001000 01101010 100101110 001100101 1011111000 101010010 111111 1001000111 10010001 0001010001 1110111101 01010100100 0111010101 00101 0010100101 1101010100 00100010111 1001010111 10110001001 1010000101 01101111110 0101110101 10010010101 010110 1001001101 01010100100 1001000101 10100111010 101111010 010100101010 01000100010 10100010001 101010101010 10111100010 1011100010 1100001001010 10110101010 0101111011 100011010100 1011000100 1101000000010 1000010100 0111010101 10000110111 10010100110 1101010001 101101100 1111010101 11101101111 1100110110 1111110100 0111010111 0011110100 01010011100 01000100101 111010011 1011011101 0111011101 10110010101 11011111101 1100011000 1111111101 1111010001 1111110100 0101010110 11111001101 11010111010 1111110101 1101010101 1101010101 11010010101 1001110101 1110010101 01010011100 00101 0010100101 1110111111 1011010100 11010010001 01010101011 01010100001 010101010110 0011001010100 10010110100 1111111100 1110110111 0101000101 010101110 01011111010 10111101010 1111010101 11010101101 110010101 0101001101 101010100 1111010101 11010111010 1101110101 101101 100101100 11110111111 110100110000 11010111000 10001010001 1111 1001111111 10111110 0111111111 011100011110 1100011111 1110111101 00101 0010100101 1111110100 0011010101 11010100101 1101011111 0101011111 0001110110 110101010010 1111110101 01011101011 10110111010 01000011110 0111010111 10101110101 1111110100 10110011100 1101010011 1110010100 1001011101 01000111101 00101111101 1100111111 1101011100 0011010101 1101001001 1100110100 1111010101 1101011001 011101001000 11010010111 1001000101 0010100101 11110101110 1101001111 0010100101 11011100100 00010110101 0100111000 110100110101 1011111001 10110111001 0101011111 00010011111 01001000100 10010101100 11110111101 1001111101 0011011111 1101011101 11110101011 11010101001 1101010001 01001110101 00111011101 1100010100 1001010100 0111100111 1111110100 01110101100 11010111010 1111010111 110000111100 11110101000 1101011111 01101110101 1000110001 11010011101 1011011010010 00101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1640
  • Average number of words per stanza: 287
  • Amount of lines: 410
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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, and, no, thy, in, little, not, art, all, our, i, my, thou, peace, death are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, in, thy, all, on, the, with are repeated.

    The author used the same word in 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 tears, dawning, ravin are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase fast connects the lines.

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