This is an analysis of the poem The Dread Of Height that begins with:

Not the Circean wine
Most perilous is for pain:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaababbcabc defbbXbbbd DCDdcfbbGbGgfbbeDCbbhbhcX XddaacdddbdibbiXXiedccX jacjaaachXcfaaifijjXabgabbg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,10,25,23,27,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101 1100011 100101101 1000101 101101 1001100001 1110011101 101111 011001 100111 1101000 11 111110000100 110101010 010001010011 10111111001 10110111000 1010110001 111101 1100 1101111101 1100 1101111101 1100 1101011101 111111 111101 1001010001 1111110001 0111 11010000100 0111 1100101 010101 001101010 001001101001 1101010100 1100 1101111101 1101 01011101 11110101 1101 11011100 1101 1101101110 1110 1111 1100111 1101 11010101 11010111 010111 11011111 1101 1100010101 1111110001 111101 11011100 10111111 0101 0101000101 101111110 11111101 1101010100 1110 1101010101 011100 110010101001 11000101 10110101 1111 1111010101 11010001 01 110111 110001001 1111 001011100 11010101 1101001111 11110010101 0101011101 01010100010 111101110101 1101001 1101 0100110011 11011100110 0101110101 11001000001 01010010101010 1111010001 11001011101 110101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 509
  • Average number of words per stanza: 94
  • Amount of lines: 95
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; be, i, not, of, and, to, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.

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