This is an analysis of the poem Hero And Leander. The Third Sestiad that begins with:

New light gives new directions, fortunes new,
To fashion our endeavours that ensue.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccXdeeeXeeffeeeegXeeddbbgghhiiXdbbjjeeedkkllggffmnmniiobppggnnppXbaqaallffiiaakkbbcchXkkggddeeeegXrXmmnneellkkeeedddobeebooosseepXXdedggllobXfddeekkkkggddggeemmbbkkaammXdgghhaannmneecXkkoojjmmbollaarrkkkkggkXllkkgXggXmgggglleeeemXboeekkggbbnmggddggkkg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 419,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111010101 0101100101 1111111111 1011111111 1101011111 1111010101 11000011111 1111110001 11001110111 1101010101 11110111010 11000101100 1101001010010 10010101010 1101010101 1111111101 100100101010 11010100010 0100110101 0100010001 0101010101 1101110100 110111000111 0101010101 1011010101 0101000100 10011111101 0101011111 0011001101 11100110001 1101010100 1101101101 01010110010 11111100010 11001110101 0101010101 1101100101 0101010101 1111101101 0101010111 1101010101 11011100101 1111011100 1101011101 1101010011 0100110101 111100101010 11111111010 01010010111 1101110101 1111001111 1111000101 1111000100 1001010101 11010101010 1111010001 01010101010 01110001010 111111001010 1101101101 01010010001 01010011001 0111010100 10110010101 1001010111 0101100101 11100011111 1111100111 10010110 11011010001 1001111101 010101101110 0111010101 10010101011 10001101110 11110101001 1101010101 1100110101 10100111001 1101110101 1101011101 11010010111 1101010111 1101111101 1101001111 01110010100 1011010101 0101110101 1001011100 0100111100 1011110100 1111110101 1100000101 1101011101 1101010101 1001000101 111101011 0111011101 1101001101 11011111001 1111110101 1111010100 1111010101 1101011101 11110100010 01010101010 0101010101 11010100101 1100010101 1101110111 0101001111 0101010001 010111000010 01010011010 1111010100 1001100111 1101010101 1101010101 1111010001 0101011100 01100100100 1101110101 011001011 1101011100 01110001001 1111010100 11111100110 11011011010 010101011 0100001101 1101010101 11000110101 0011010101 1101011000 10010011000 0101110101 0101010101 01110101100 1101011100 1101111101 0101010101 010110101001 1101010100 01011000101 1101110010 1010001001 1111110011 11010100101 11100011111 1100111111 110010101110 11010011010 1111011101 1101010101 110101101 01001101001 0101010101 1111010001 1100110101 1101000101 1111100101 0111110101 01010101110 11111101010 011101011 0100101111 1101010111 0101001001 1111101101 010101111 111110001110 1101001010010 0111010100 1011111101 0101010111 1101110101 1100011101 1101011101 1101111101 1101010101 0111010101 1100011101 111101010010 110011110101 0101001001 01100110001 01001011111 11010110101 0011110011 100100101 1101101010 0100010100 0100111111 1101010101 101101010110 01011101010 1111110011 0101010100 1101010101 0100010101 11000101001 0111111101 10001010111 101001011101 1101010101 11010101101 11010100101 11101111001 0001010101 0101000101 11010111010 1111010101 10010010101 1001011010 1101011101 1110001101 1111001101 10101011000 110101001 01111100101 010010101100 010001000010 11110011001 00110101001 1101011001 1111110101 1101011101 1111111101 1111111110 1111110101 1001010101 1101111001 11111101010 1111011110 11010101001 1101100100 10011100111 0101111101 0101110101 1101011101 0111010101 10101011100 0101010101 1001010101 11110011101 1100010100 100010100010 11110101010 1101101101 1101010101 1001100101 0101100111 11011101010 01111111110 1101010101 0100110101 1001011011 1101010001 1001011101 10110111011 1001010111 1111110101 11110010111 1111010101 1101010100 0111011101 1101110010 11011010100 1011110101 01010010111 1011111101 1101111101 1101010101 1101111101 0101111101 1111010001 01010100010 10101101101 1101110100 1111011100 11111011010 1101001001 0111110101 11110100101 11010010100 0100111001 0101010101 1101100101 1101011101 0101110001 1100010011 1111010111 0101101101 0111100101 10101111001 0111010101 0111101101 10100011101 0111110101 1111001101 1111111101 1111011101 110111101 0111010101 1001010101 01110101010 1101010111 1101110101 1011111110 1000011101 0011010101 1111000111 1101010011 1101011001 11011110101 1001010101 0110010101 0101011001 1100110111 1001001101 111001111 11011010101 1101011001 10001011101 11010101100 0101101101 0101101111 111010001 1101010101 1111010101 1001011111 0100000101 1101101111 0101110100 0111110001 11011101001 1011010101 1011100101 10100110111 1111000101 11010101011 1101100100 1111110101 0101000101 0111010001 1101101101 1110001101 11010011111 1111000101 0101111101 0111010001 1101011111 10111010111 0101101011 1000110101 1111011111 10010001010 1101101101 01010011001 010101111010 11111111010 11111111010 1101010101 1001010101 11110111101 11110001011 1100111111 0111110101 11111101001 1101010111 11011101010 11010111010 0111111101 1001010101 10010010101 0111010001 10010101010 11011101010 1101111101 0101110101 1101110111 1101011101 1111010101 1011011111 111101101110 111101110010 1111100101 1001001101 1101001010 10010111010 1001110101 01011011100 0011011100 1111110010 10010110111 0101010101 1011010100 1001010101 11110110010 01111101010 111011110 10011010010 1111111111 1101111111 110101111 1001001111 1111011001 1101011001 01001101000 1111010101 0111010111 11011100101 11101101 1111011111 1110011111 11011100101 0101111101 1111111101 1001010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 18370
  • Average number of words per stanza: 3284
  • Amount of lines: 419
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; new, our, more, and, of, for, to, his, love, with, her, he, it, that, she, in, good, leander, we, place, mine are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words whose, like, and, of, her, with are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her, it, us, mine are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases her, mine connect the lines.

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