This is an analysis of the poem The Appeasement Of Demeter that begins with:

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Demeter devastated our good land,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbcaacb X dedeeeed X ffffbbfX X ghghiihg a jbjXeebj a XXibbbbi X kekeccek X elelXile X bbbbbbbX m bnbnccnb a bmbmiimb X ihihffhi X ememoome X bfbfXifb X Xfmfccfm XXbbbbddbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 0101010101 0101010101 1101110101 1110011111 0111010101 1101010101 100101 0101100101 1 0100010101 1101110111 1101001111 11110100101 1111010101 1101010101 100111 10001010111 1 11001011111 1100011101 01010101011 1101010101 111100111001 1011010011 100111 0100111101 1 1101010111 11010010101 0101110101 0111010101 1111010101 1111110111 1001011 1101110111 1 0101010101 110100101101 11000101 01010111110 0110010101 1011010101 111011 1110111101 1 10110100 0101001110 0101010101 1111011101 1011010101 1001011111 100101 0101111101 1 0101010101 1101010001 0100010011 111100111 1101011101 1101110101 100101 1101110101 1 1101111111 1100001001 0111010001 0111010101 01001111011 1000111001 011101 1111111101 1 0100111101 11010100101 1101010111 1111011101 0101001001 1001110001 100101 0101010110 1 10010111 0101010101 1101011101 01011000111 0101111111 1111110111 101101 1101010101 1 1001000101 0111011101 0111110111 1001000101 1110111011 1001110111 110101 11110000101 1 0111110101 1100010101 1010010101 0111110001 1101010011 11010111 001101 0101010111 1 1111110011 1100010101 0101010101 1111010111 11010101010 10010101110 1001001 0101111100 1 0101010101 0111010001 1111110101 0101001101 0101010101 1001010011 100111 1111111011 1 11010101 0101010111 1101010101 0100110011 1101010101 1101110101 110111 1111010101 1 1001010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010111 1101011111 1011100011 010100 1101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 32
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 144
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; gloom, her, of, and, laughed are repeated.

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