This is an analysis of the poem Mustapha that begins with:

Oh, wearisome condition of humanity,
Born under one law, to another bound;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccXdXdeefbfbbbghghhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110001000100 1101100101 100111100100 0101010001 1101011011 1011010101 00011100010 0110010101 10011011100 0111010111 1111111111 0100111101 1001000101 1001110011 0111110101 110110001 0100110101 1111110100 11111111010 0101010111 01010011010 0101010101 1110100111 1101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1036
  • Average number of words per stanza: 178
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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