This is an analysis of the poem Alsace-Lorraine that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbcddbcee efefddefgg hihiddhibb X diidicjiXij dbikdbkXlcmlmaXaiXbibgbgbXbXXiaiackXk inin aoaoaXabalnlndkdakXka X adeeadbeebXXnXlclipcdpiXdimdmXeoeiobibeiibbbbib X iibnbeeqXqnbbbbbcchXbrrbsXb edmedkbibddib a bjXjlblXib breeerecaca bebroreojXnXjdecebccne
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,10,10,1,11,37,4,21,1,47,1,27,13,1,10,11,36,1,6,20,1,47,8,4,10,6,1,28,11,1,52,1,6,51,34,21,22,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 010100101 10010101 111100111 001111101 101111001 111111011 11110101 10110011 10010101 1011111 101110101001 1001101011111 1001011001001 1001001001011 100100100101 1111100111 1111101001001 110110100101 100110100111 1100101111 1101111101 1101010101 1101010101 1001010101 1000010101 0101010101 01010101111 1111001101 1010111101 0111010111 1 1001001101011 0101001101001 010100101001 101110101101 1100111001001 110011100111 110011110001 10011110101 110100110110 101010110101 01110010101 10110100111101 01111111101101 10101111001011 01010011101001 10011111001001 01010111101101 1111110100101 11110101010001 10011010011010101 1111110111001 0111010010110010 1010101100111 111001110010010 100101111001001 0101010110001 01111100101111 1010111100111 01001110010011000 100110110101101 101110101110011 110110110100101 111101100101001 10011110110101 0101100100101111 1000100100100101 1001011011010110 11001001001001001 01101001001111010 0111010100010 100101110101011 11010100101001 100101101101001 1110111110001 0100100100101001 1001001101010001 111010111010010 111100100100111 101100111001001 1001110010101 110111011111001 0101011100101 000100101101001 10011011100111 010101000101111 100011101101001 1000010001110001 10010100100111 100100101001101 1011100010010101 1101100111001000 1011100101000001 1101000111101001 0100011111001101 01101010000101101 011011001100111 0100111100101 01001001011001001 10111101100101 1 11001100 11101001 110111 1 10010101 11011101 01011001 00011101 01011101 01011101 01110101 010100101 01010110101 10110010111 01001000 11010001100 10010101001 10011101110 1100010101 01010011011 1111010101 1110010101 1001011101 1111110001 0101011101 1101010101 110011101001 01010000110 1101110101 1001010101 1111010010 11000010101 0110110100 11010101101 1101001011 11100101 0101110011 1100111101 1100010101 1101010101 0101010001 1001010101 11000100101 0101010101 01011010111 0111110101 11110010111 1101111111 01010010101 0101011100 11001100011 1 1010110101 1101010111 1111011101 11010100101 1101010101 01101010011 0111011111 0101110101 11011101 11010101 1001010101 1101011111 110111 01001010101 010001001 0101001001 10110010101 010101001 1001010001 01010001 01010100010 01010010101 0101010101 010111 110001 010100101001 01010010100 1101111011 01000010001 10011101010 0100000101 1101010111 1001110001 10011010001 001001010101 01010101 0101111101 01010100101 10001001101 0101011111 1 1111 101100101 0101010111001 0101100110001 011101010101 10010010011101 100101010101 11010001100100 110101110101 110001010101 10100101 01100011 11011101 001001101 1111111 11000110 100101001 1110110101 110100111 1001010011 10111101001001 01010111 01011101 00010111 01010101 1101011101 11010100101 1111110101 1111110011 1001011101 010101010000 1101010101 101001010010 1100111101 1101010111 11101 01000100 110111001 11110111 00110100 110000100 110010100101 100100101 1101010111 10010100101 01101010 0101010101 10010000011 10010010101 0101011101 0100100101 1101011001 0100010101 1101010101 1011011101 011101 011101 1 0100110101 11010100111 0010000100101 0100010101 1001000101 1011010101 11101010100101 10001 0101 110101010101 0100101 010101 11010000101 0101010001 01000100 01001001101 1101110100 01010101001 10011101100 1011010101 010011 110111011101 110100101 0100110101 1001111101 0101010101 1 11010011100111 100111001101001 0101000101001 11010100100101 01001110110111 010111101001101 100110100100101 001011111010111 101010110110110 0110101111001001 01010111 0110101111 10101001011001011 00101 1101010101110010 01 1010110001011010 101 10010010101001001 01 11010000111110110 1 00011000101110100 1001 0100110100111001 10101 01111110110010 101 10101001111010010 0101 100111001110010 1101 0100101101100010101 0100101011011110 100 1011011111010110 101 001010111111110 100101 10110110010110010 01011 100100101011100101 1100 010010110111101 1011011 0100101001011010 01001 11001001000 0110101001 010010111 1011111110 0010111011 011010101 011100101 101010101 100100110101 11101001001001 100110110101 110100100101 100101010111 100101101011 01010010001100 0101101101001 1011101101011 010100110111 110010110111 1011011101111 111101101001 110100110101 01010001111 011101110101 1011100111001 010001101 10111100101 01010010101 1 10111101 10110101 01000101 01010101 0101000101 0101001101 1100110001 01001110101 0111010101 1100110001 1101001101 00110001001 1001011111 0101010101 110111 010010001 1100011101 010111 10001010101 0100101 0101011101 0101010101 1100010111 0101010011 1111010001 1001011101 1101010101 0100110111 1101010101 101000100101 0101001101 11010100100 110001100 11010111 0101010101 1001000100 1101110101 11010100100 1000111000111 1 11010001 1100111111 11010101 0101011101 1001111001 1011111001 01010101 01010011 0100111010 1101101010 11110100 1101010101 11010101100 10010010101 0101110001 101101110010 1011110101 1101010110 010111 010101 010111 0101010101 0100010 11010101 011011001 11001111 1110011 110101 010100111 0101001001 0101001111 0101010101 1001011100 0101010101 0011010101 11011001101 0010001 100101111101 1100110101 1011010101 0101010110 01011011111 0101011001 0101010101 101010000101 11100010111 10010010101 1111000101 0101010101 1101001011 1000010101 10100010100 1 01011101 100110001 1101110111 1101010111 1101010101 0101011111 110100101 010100101001 01100010101 0011011101 0101010001 1101111111 0100110101 001001100101 0001010101 1111010101 1101110101 1100010101 0101010001 11001111 11011111 0101110101 111101 011101 010011001 1010101 01010110 0111010100101 0101010111 1010010101 1001110101 1001110001 111101010101 0100110110 0101010111 0101110101 1101010101 1101010011 0101110101 1001010111 1101011101 101010100101 1111010001 1001010101 1101110001 110110010101 0101010101 11001010111 1101010101 01110101001 110101001 10010111 01010101 0101001101 11110101 1111010101 0101000101 01010100101 1011010001 0100010001 010010101 0001010100 10000100101 001100101 10011001 11110101001 0111110111 11001010100 0100010101 1100110101 11000100 0111010101 01110100100 0111110101 010010001111 1101011101 1101011001 010011101 01001011111 1110111011 01011100111 1100010101 01000111100 0101010101 0101010101 1101110001 1011000101 0101010111 01010010001 110101 110100 1111110110 11000100101 0101010001 1100010111 01110010101 0101001101 1101110111 0101010101 11010110001 0100110001 010100111 0100111111 11000101001 100000101 1110011100101 0101100101 0100010001 1001010101 11001010101 1110010001 11001000001 1101010111 110100101010 1011100111 1101010100 010101110010 0111011011 01010101 0101100101 1101010101 1100111101 01000101 010010101 01001101 1011010101 0101010111 1011110001 01010100101 1011010101 0101111101 11010010011 0111010101 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 38
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 662
  • Average number of words per stanza: 115
  • Amount of lines: 583
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, our, heart, on, her, in, and, earth's, him, she, his, as, who, from are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words our, by, the, on, who, with, in, from are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase none connects the lines.

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