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

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  • Rhyme scheme: a BBcdcXebbEbdfffdfbf X fXdffdfafaffghXhgXed EccfcgXdgfdffddhXdXdfhXhccd X didiffdcjkjdiecekdXcfcbBlblcecbccecXchchbXX X ldXldXfcfiecedimcmdedkdkeeeefdfdmmfgffgnfXffg a fffbobbbo fofoXdhpd a fXfdldeeeXeccddeccegqnncqhgghfXfdfhdgd ddgffdnXnfegegfffff X bXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,19,1,20,27,1,43,1,45,1,9,9,1,38,19,1,21,17,24,1,20,1,55,46,28,12,1,27,20,10,10,1,12,11,21,13,1,14,6,21,1,68,6,59,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
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01010101101 10010101 100100101 110011101001 110001010101 1001000101 0101100001 0101010111 0101001001 11110100101 01010100100 0101010101 1100011010 101101010001 0101010101 0111000101 110111011 1111010101 100001010100 0101001101 10110000111 1101010111 001001101010 110110010101 11001010111 01001010101 01010010101 1011010101 1101111101100 111101001 101111001 0111010101 0101011111 01100010111 11010101001 1100101010101 0100101101001 1101110011 1011000100 01000111001 1 11010101 1111011101 1101000101 1111010101 1011010001 1101000101 11110100101 01010100110 10010000111 01010100101 11010010101 1101001111 1101010100 1101110101 01000100100 01010100001 01010100101 010000010101 1101010101 0111000001 1 10110110101 1101011111 01010001110 1001010011 100111011100 11010100101 01010101001 0111110111 11001011101 11111101110 1101110111 010100001001 100100011 01010100101 0101010101 0101110100101 1111010101 0110000101 01010101011 1101011101 1101010101 1111010101 0101111101 0111011101 0111010001 0101010101 01111101010 10010101010 1101010111 1101011101 0101010101 1001011111 1101000111 11111001010 1101010101 01010100001 0100010011 1111010111 0100110100 1111010111 0011110101 1110011101 1101110101 101010101000 1111010101 1100010101 11110011101 1101010101 0111010101 0101010001 1111010101 1111011100 11011101001 01010100001 0101010111 01010101010 1111011111 0101110101 1100111101 10010010101 01001011101 0100011101 10001010001 01000110101 1101010111 110100101001 010111001110 010100111100 1100010101 10111111010 011010010001 11010100001 010101010 0101010111 1101010101 10011000100 0101000101 01110111100 11010010011 0101010111 1101111101 0101011001 11010101111 0101100001 1101010111 0101010011 0101010111 11011100101 0101010101 0101011101 1100001100 1101010101 11001101010 11110010101 0101010101 1101100001 10111111111 10001011011 0111011111 1001111010 0101110100 0100010101 01010101 010001010 11111100 11010101 011101001 110010101 11000100 1101010101 0101101101 011010101 10010100101 11000110011 0101001101 0111111111 01010100101 0101101101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010111 0101010111 0101100101 0100011101 110100101101 011111000001 00111010111 0101100001 1111010001 1001110101 1111110011 10010010101 101011100110 1101010101 01110010101 11011010001 010010101001 0100110001 11111111 01010010 0111010101 1 10010011001 1101001101 1111010101 0101011101 0110010100 01011101101 010101101 10000100 01010110101 01001011001 1001010001 01011011001 11010010111 11011101100 11011010011 01001110101 0100010100 110111101 10110101011 1100010101 0101010001 01111000001 010110010111 1111011101 0100110001 0101010001 0101010101 010010101001 0111010101 01001000111 11010100101 01001010001 1011010101 1110110101 010011100111 1001010001 1101110111 1101010100 0111010011 01010101 11010101 11010100 11000101 11010100111 1001 1000101001 00110011001 0101111101 1001010101 1101010101 01000100100 01011111 110101001 11010101 11010011 110001 0100101 1101010101 11001111101 11010101 01010110101 11011101000 0101000101 1101010111 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  • Amount of stanzas: 45
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 720
  • Average number of words per stanza: 122
  • Amount of lines: 762
  • 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; to, of, his, her, and, this, he, above, for, they, no, in, would, not, while, by are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words cannon, the, from, for, whose, a, these, he, by are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gazed is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase above connects the lines.

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  • summary of Napoleon;
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