This is an analysis of the poem The Nuptials Of Attila that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: a abccccadcdcdedfeafaB X gghiihijjB X kBXkiccB X jXjallddjdadjaamnmnB a jjjXjofjjfBjjfB a cpcpjBajXqqjdjdB X jXrrjaajejllesjJS X jjqdqXjbtctclnXnljljjljlcucujojomjmkcmvcB X nnnnaddaB o tddtjvjvcjjXB a gugufdfd X jdjdpdpd X iiouuoqqB X jvjeccveccavaXoevoco
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,20,1,10,1,8,1,20,1,15,1,16,1,17,1,41,1,9,1,13,1,8,1,8,1,9,1,23,1,49,1,29,1,17,1,31,1,17,1,26,1,17,1,23,1,8,1,5,1,38,1,21,1,5,1,7,29,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1101101 1110010 1110111 0010001 1111111 1010101 1101101 1010101 1010101 10101001 1110101 1010101 10101001 1010101 1111101 10010111 1011101 1011001 11011101 1111010 1 1010111 1110101 1011101 1010001 1011101 1010001 11011101 1110101 1010101 0101010 1 11111010 1111010 01010100 10101110 110101 10011101 101101 1011010 1 10010010 1110110 1001101 1010001 1010101 1010111 1110001 1111101 0010001 1111101 1010101 1000111 1010001 1110111 1001101 1010101 1011101 1011101 1011101 1011010 1 1010101 1010101 10100111 1010101 0101101 10111001 1010100 1011101 1010101 1011101 0101010 1010011 1010111 1010111 0101010 1 1100101 1011111 1000101 00100001 1110101 1111010 1001111 1011101 1111000 1110101 1010011 11100111 1011111 1011011 10000111 1011010 1 1001101 10101100 1010101 11001001 1011111 1010101 1110101 11111001 1110101 1010011 11111001 1010101 1000111 1011111 1110101 1000101 1000101 1 1110101 10011101 1010111 1010101 1101001 10101001 11011101 1010010 1111001 10001011 1110111 1010101 1011101 1111101 1000111 1111111 1111111 1011111 11101010 1010111 10100111 1011101 1110101 1000101 1010111 1010101 1001101 0011001 1110101 11100101 11011101 1111101 11011001 100100101 101101001 101001010 1010111 100101001 111001001 111001011 0101010 1 1010101 1111111 1010101 1010111 0101111 1110101 1110111 1111101 0101010 1 1110111 1010101 1011101 1011101 1001101 10011001 1111101 1011101 1011101 1110101 10100101 1000110 1011010 1 1010011 1110101 1111111 10010101 1010101 11101101 1011101 1010101 1 1111101 1010101 1000101 10001101 10100111 1110001 1010001 1110011 1 01001101 1111101 1011101 1010101 10010101 10010101 1010101 1111111 0101010 1 10010101 1111111 11100101 1011111 1111011 10110101 1010111 1010101 10010101 1110111 1010111 1010101 1010111 01100110 1000101 1110111 1010101 1011101 1010001 10000111 11011101 10010101 1011010 1 1011111 1001101 1111010 10111001 0010111 1010101 1011111 1010111 1010101 1010101 0110101 0101010 1010111 1110111 1010111 1110101 0101010 1110111 10100101 1110101 1000101 1111101 1110101 0101010 1010001 1110101 0010111 1010101 1111111 1001111 1010101 0101010 1011101 1010101 11010101 11010011 1011101 10100101 11011101 1010010 1010001 1011111 1110101 1010111 11101001 1011101 1111001 1100101 1011010 1 10100100 1111011 11011111 10011101 1110101 10100001 0111101 0010100 11101001 1000111 1110111 1011101 1110111 10101001 0010101 1111101 1011101 1110101 1010111 11110111 0101010 1111101 1101011 1010101 1110101 1010101 10100111 1110111 1111101 1 1011111 1010111 1110111 1110101 1110111 1010101 1111111 1010101 1010101 1011101 1010111 1010101 1110111 1010101 1010101 1010101 1011010 1 1000101 1000101 11101110 1010111 11100111 00101001 0101010 1010101 10001101 1001101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1110101 1111101 1010111 0010101 10101101 110110 11011101 11110101 11011111 100100111 1010111 101110001 1000111 1011111 101001001 0101010 1010111 1011101 1 10101001 1010101 1110101 1110111 1111111 1000101 1010101 10001110 1110111 1010101 0011111 11110001 11101111 01100101 0101010 1010101 1110111 1 1010111 1010101 1010101 1011101 0101010 1000101 1010111 1010111 1111111 1010101 1010111 1110101 1010101 1111111 0101010 1010101 1010111 00101001 1011101 1111100 1110101 1001111 1001101 1000101 1011011 1011010 1 1011101 1010101 1010101 1110101 11011101 1110101 1110101 0101010 1110111 1010101 1000101 1010101 1010101 10010111 10001011 100010111 1011010 1 1010111 1010101 1110111 0101010 1110111 1010111 1111101 1110101 1110111 1110101 1110111 1000101 1110101 1111111 10010101 1010001 1010101 1010111 1010101 1010111 1110101 1110111 1011010 1 1111111 1110101 0010111 0011101 0010101 10101101 0011101 1011111 1 1001101 1101101 1111111 1111111 0101010 1 1111111 1110001 1011101 1111111 1011101 1110001 1110101 11100101 1111111 1110101 1100101 1010101 1000101 1010111 10010111 1011101 1011101 0011001 1011011 01111000 1011101 1110101 1100111 1010111 1010111 1010101 1010101 1111111 1110101 10010101 0101010 1110101 1110111 1011101 1011101 1011001 1010101 1011010 1 1110101 1110101 10001101 1010101 1111101 1010101 1010111 1010101 1011001 1010101 1010101 10100111 11101100 1010101 0010101 1010111 1110101 1010101 1110101 1101101 1011010 1 1111111 1111111 1011101 1110101 0101010 1 1111111 1011111 11101101 1111001 1110101 1110111 0101010 1 1010101 0010101 10010001 1010100 10101010 1010101 10001010 1000101 1010101 1010101 10011001 1110101 110111001 1011101 1010101 1011101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1011101 1010101 1010101 10100101 1010111 0011111 1011101 1011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 58
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 566
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, she, eagle, we, he, his, light, him, look, on, her, earth, who, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, was, see, eagle, o, what, death, him, earth, she, night are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases high, dead, passed connect the lines.

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