This is an analysis of the poem On The Disastrous Spread Of Aestheticism In All Classes that begins with:

Impetuously I sprang from bed,
Long before lunch was up,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb deee ffgf cgfg fXhX ieje Xaaa hkXk jlhl hmam eeme haXa aXej lefe ifXf lada Xiei lfif X Xmam ijmj aeie fkmk faia embm XaaX Xmem jXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 10001101 101111 11110101 0011101 010100100 110111 11110101 110101 11110101 010111 11110100 010001 11110111 1111010 111101001 1101010 11011101 0111010 01110111 1101010 01010001 11010100 01100101 1101010 11110101 111101 01000101 010101 111100111 110101 1101010 110101 11010101 0110110 11101111 0101010 01011101 010101 11010101 011101 01010001 0100110 010100111 010010 01110111 110001 11010101 110101 01110101 010101 01100100 101101 01110101 1110010 110111010 1001010 11111011 111101 11111111 010001 11011101 110011 11111100 010101 10010100 111110 11011110 110101 11010101 111111 11010001 010001 10 11010111 010001 10110001 000111 01010101 110101 11111101 010101 11110101 1101011 11111101 010111 11000101 110001 1101001 010101 0110001001 110011 101010100 010101 101000101 1101001 110011101 110100 1010110000 010101 11111101 101010100 01110100 1001111 01010111 011001 101110011 1101010 11111101 10101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 28
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 109
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, and, each 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.

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