This is an analysis of the poem The Mistress Of Vision that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bXcbdc X eXfegX X hgghe X haaha a hXdhXXbd a bbbfbiXfXb X jikjXjlk X amXammmlem X bmbdbmdXXXga l Xnananaon a Xfaffafapa X afafmf X bmbmbem X bmbqm X gdgXd X ahbahbfa X Xdbbbb X hghhhgqggX X XeX X akpkpmmgrgrrriiaaXdlgX X XeXaegXgegebebggX X aaakhahga X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,1,6,1,5,1,5,1,8,1,10,1,8,1,10,1,12,1,9,1,10,1,6,1,7,1,5,1,5,1,8,1,6,1,10,1,3,1,22,1,17,1,9,1,8,1,6,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 101010 110101 1110111 110010 10101011111 111 1 01010010 11101100 01100 111010 10101011011 1010 1 0100110 10101 1010111 101010 00101001010100 1 011010 1110111 101011 11110 10101001011101 1 0101010 00101100 11011 1010010 111110 101111100 101001111100 01 1 11101 10110010 1110010 1001101 1100001 0011011 0100 1010101 100001010011101 1 1 011111010 1110100 10101 101110 101010 100110 10101010101001 1 1 111111 1010001 0110100 1110100 11111011 1010101 00110 1110100 1010101000100 11 1 101011 1100100 1101010 111101 1101111 011110 10010111 10011100 11101100 111100 101011010111 0100 1 10011100 110110001 11011101 1011111 1010101 0010101 1011101 101010111 01101 1 1110100 1010101 1000101 1010101 1110001 1010001 11000111 1010101 10110011101 0101 1 11111 010011 10101011 1110101 111010100110 101 1 11011101 11000101 1110101 111010001 101 1011101011010 1 1 11001101 10110001 111 10111010010 1001 1 11001101 1010011 111 1010101001010 1 1 101 10101010 0010001 1111101 10100010 110 11111011001 1001 1 0011000 1110001 1010111 1011101 101 101011101010001 1 0111110 1011101 101010 111010 11101010 011111 11010111100 10101 1010111 1101000 1 10010100 10010100 111100 1 1110101 011 1011111 1011111 1011111 1010101 1010101 01111101 01111111 11010101 11111101 11011101 11110111 111101111 110101111 1110101 01110101 11101010 11011111 1 111 101010010101000 1 10010100 11010100 111100 1001101 11101010 111 100 0110111 11111010 01100001 11101110 0011111 11101010 1101101 1010111 1111 101010010101000 1 111111 10111 100101011 100010 1100010 010101 10111010 11110100011 1101 1 1101010 100011 01001 111110 0010101 101001 10101010010010 1 1 0111010 01111 1110101 11000 01001010111 11111 1 11101 11111011 111011 11101 100010100110111 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 50
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 232
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, on, me, to, thou, their, she are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines more, me are repeated).

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