This is an analysis of the poem To The Comic Spirit that begins with:
Sword of Common Sense! -
Our surest gift: the sacred chain... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abcabcabdecedccdfgcfghfgheXeihbdcbfbcfdbbfdbfjbcjkck bkajcacalamlmlcaccccalncnclcfinbfioXobXjcboX ibcXjcccjkcpccjcccimcmifififfoiXaobiabqabqicibqbqcoobofboafqgqfapggpagfboboafaXgpjajcXcjraapircspicspricritpoitaokokao ctcjitiXtnfnfiigigapipgaaXaiiicXccc Xr
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 52,44,118,35,103,32,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10101 11010101 01011111 01010100 11001000101 01000101 01010001 1011110111 1111011111 11000101 01110111 11010001 11110101 10010101 01010101 01011101001 1100111101 0101011011 1001110101 1100110101 1111110101 01000101 10010101 0101001 1001000101 1101110101 00110011100 0101111101 1101110101 10110100101 11010011101 0111111111 1101110101 01001011101 1101010101 1101001001 0101010111 11110101 11010001 11011101 01011111 11011001 010111001 01011101 10011101 1001011101 11110001 11011101 01110101 010100010 01010101 10010001010 10111101 01000111010 01000100 0100111101 1111110011 01011101 11101101 110101001 11111101 0101001101 0101010111 11011101 01000101 1010110001 1101010110 0101011101 111101001 10010101 1001010101 0101110101 0101010111 1111010101 1101000111 0101010101 010011001 011101001 01010001 11011101 0101110101 01110101101 0111010101 1111010011 1111110101 0101011101 11110101 01011000100 0101010101 0111010101 1101000110 1111010111 10001010101 01100010011 0001010111 1101010110 1100010101 11010100101 0101110111 01010100 01111101 0101110111 1010110101 11010100111 11011101 10010101010 01010101010 1101010101 0100111101 11110010101 0111110101 100111011 101010110001 1101010111 1101010111 01110001101 1001010101 0011001111 11101010101 0101010001 1111010101 1011111101 1101011101 1101010111 1011010001 10011111111 1101001101 1101011110 0101000101 1011000111 0101010001 1100010111 01110010101 1101010101 1011010111 01010101 01000101 0101010101 0111100101 1111010111 0111010101 1011010101 11010101101 0101000101 01010111 0100010001 1001110101 0101000101 1001110111 1101110101 0101000101 100011101 1001010011 0101110101 1101010011 11010001001 0101110101 1001000111 10010101 1101100100 1111110101 010101001 0101010101 1011010011 01010101011 0101000101 100101011 100111101 0101000101 0100010111 01010111111 1101010101 1011010101 1011110101 1100010101 0111010101 1101001101 0101110101 1101110101 0100010011 1011110101 0101010101 0010010101 1011010101 0100110101 1011010101 1100010101 1001010001 0111010101 10110101 11111100001 0100100101 0101110101 1111010111 1011111101 0100011001 01011010001 1100011101 0110110101 0100010001 1101010011 1101011101 0101010101 1001110101 1101010101 01010101 11010111 1101010101 0101010111 10110111010 0101010001 01110101110 0101010101 1011011110 1101010001 1001011101 1100111101 0101011101 010010111 11010101 01010101 01010100 0111010101 010011101 11011111 010010001 1110000101 11001110101 1001010111 1111110001 0101110101 1100111001 11010000101 11011101 0101111101 11010101 010001001 10010110 01000100 110100100 01111111 0100010001 1100111101 1111001101 0101100101 11010101010 0101001001 1100101 11010100 111111100 1101011101 01011110111 01110101 1111001101 1111010101 0101001111 10000111 110000010 01110101 10001101 1001000101 0101001100 10110101 11011101 111010101 01010101 01000101 1111011101 111010101 11110101 1001010101 01001001101 0101010101 1100010011 10001000101 10110101 01000101 1101010101 1111010101 11111101001 10011101 10010101 1001110101 1001010101 0111111111 1111000101 11010101 11110111 1001000111 1001010101 1101001111 1001001101 1110010101 11111001101 0110110101 01010101001 0101010111 11011011001 1111001001 1111011001 1001010101 0100010101 0101000101 11111111 10001001 0101010101 1111001101 1101010001 110101100 1101110011 1101010101 10110111000 1101010101 1101010111 1101110101 11000101010 1101011101 1101111110 0101010101 1011011101 10011100101 1001110101 0101110001 0101010010 1101010101 11110011000 0100011101 111100101 1011001101 0101010101 1101010101 1111010111 1011011101 1000011111 1111011001 1101010101 1101011100 1000010111 1001010011 0111111101 1111011101 1011001111 11010101010 0111010101 101101110010 1101111101 1101010100 1100010101 1111110001 1111010101 0101110101 1101000100 0101011101 0111000101 0111100011 1011010111 1001001111 1101110111 0101010001 0101010111 0101001101 1001011101 0101111101 0011000111 1101010111 0101000101 01111101 110001001 1101100101 1101010001 1001010011 10010100110 1111011101 0101010011 0101011101 1100010111 11011000101 10110100 11010101011 1011110001 0100010101 11011100101 1101011101 0100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2583
- Average number of words per stanza: 453
- Amount of lines: 384
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; of, or, with, for, they, his, when, and, it, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words these, or, for are repeated.
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