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

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abcdabe efedggh if X jgg kgfaffl X b deme bien hb X g aoial efdeepddmedddibbbfhdfefq ddgbXnipedr g X mbbgdlksdlhr ggkjod X l egmgab dedXdodieb X b pbtXdcmk daldbaaldd cgspnghgrXl dbnem X Cgdtgdsd Cdl ehhhXedd akkg X lddhdbam rceg gXXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,7,2,1,3,7,1,1,4,4,2,1,1,5,24,11,1,1,12,6,1,1,6,10,1,1,8,10,11,5,1,8,3,8,4,1,8,4,4,1,11,6,1,5,1,1,9,7,1,1,1,6,2,11,1,4,1,1,7,7,8,1,1,1,5,19,1,1,6,5,6,1,8,1,3,2,1,3,6,1,5,5,1,5,5,5,1,4,2,1,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 010 1011011010100 1010 010101 10010011011 10100111011 110111010101 10101110 1010011 1010111 111110010110 10011001001011101 11010110011001 001010100100011101 111 110100101 1 11110101 01001011011101100 011111011001 0111010011011 011011100 010101101010 0101010001010 10101001100 1011011100 1001010100101010 1 0100111010 1100101011 001111111110101 01100001111101001 11101110001010010010101 11101101011 11001111001 11011110101 1101001 1110111011 1010 1 101 101 0000101 11 00011 01011001110010 100001011001 0101101101 110100111 10101101 0101101 011000101 10111 1101010101 10010 11110000101 01110101 11010001010001001 0010101001 11 000010111 0110001111 1011011 0011 111101101001 1000101111 011000101 0101110 110101101001 11010001010 11111011 011001011101 0100001100 10100011 110110011010 00101001 00101 0010110110 00101111 010111 101111101 11010010 1 11010 1101111 11011011 1100111111001 11011101111 101010010 111010101 10110100100 111111 111110010 0101101001 111010101101 11111 011101001 11011 111100101 011110011110101 01011 1 10 0100010001 101100010101 0011011 0011010100101 10101010001 0101110111 01000101011 10100010101010 11101010 101010100 10110 10101101011 1111101001 0010110001 010111 00111 1 11 10011000101 01101111111 0101111011 11011110 110110 11010101010 11011100 00010110100101 101111011 11001011 1011101110 00101101011 1111001011 100101011 110101010011 110101101010 101011 0100111 10111011 11110001010 101010111000 0111010101 11 101010011 10110010110101 010110111 10110010110 11110010111 11001010 0111010100 101000100011 001010101101 10011101000100 10011100101010 1 1111011100 1010011 1000101011010 010001011000101 100110111111 10110001 0100101010000100 100101010100 1111011100 1101110 010010 10101100 01010010100011 100010001 1011 010101 011 0010101101 11 1110100100 111011111 10101110101 0101 1 010011111010 101110100011 101110100011 1011110101 11010101101 11110101101 01111001 0100101 011001011111 1101101010 111010010 11110010 01111100100 0000010001010100 11111101010100 0111010010 1 110010110 11111011111 11110111111101 100110111011011110 0101010111100 01111011110 110111101001 1101111 11100011001010 0110010100011 10110110111 1100100111000 1001111 00101110110 1110011 0101010011010 1011101101 1 01111101 00100111 101110 0110101110 0010101110 1 10001 1101110110 11001 0111010101 11001001110 01111110 101110011 11100110110 011110101010 0001000101 11101010101 0110101 0110101011101 1010101 1010101101 11110 010101101 11010101101 1 10 1010101010 011110011 10101011001 01111011011 1110011 11010001 11111111 1001001111 111010100 1110111 1111011110 110100 1110101 10110101010 1001001001 101010101 1010110110110 01001101 1011011111101101 1 1110001 01011001 010110010 111 1 110000 111011101 1110100101 00100111111 11111010010 00111101110 1111010 1111111 1001110100110 1111101 011110111010010101 11100110 1011111010 1010010110010 111111111 0111110111 101110110 1001101001011 11011101011 11001010 100010111010111 11000110101010 0110010101 111110100 1 010010 10111101101 1101011101111101 1010111 111100100 11111001110100 010010111001010 01010101100101001 100111001 11101 101101010 1000111010 10101111101101 1011101101010 11111001110101 111111110010 100110011 110100101100 11101110111 0101110111111 101010001010 001110101000101 011101110111 110111010111000 1010 1 100 1111101010111 01110110011 111101001101 101010 1001010110 01100010 010100100110 0100100110 1110101101 001010110 1011111 1111101101010 111111 110111101 101011101 10010111 11101001 1 101101011011110 01100101 10100001 01110011 01010011 11011100010 101110 110001010 1 10001101011 10101100101 110110100010 101011 0111101101 1 011011001 1010110110110 11011001101 111000111011100 0101100100101 110110110010101 11110011100111 110110010100001 11011100011 1 111110100 1101011 0101011110111001 1111011 101110010 111101111110 0101001 010010110 010110101011001 1100110 1 11011010111 11011110101 101110010111101010 111110101011 111100001001000101 101010111 10001101111100 1000110111011 100010110101 01010 1001110 1010111010101000 11100101101100 1001010010101 0101001111 1 01010 1010101100 01010001 0110001 01010 11101010 1 11010010101 1101111111 10110010011001101 101011011010100 10101001001100 1111001000100
  • Amount of stanzas: 92
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 426
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; we, to, us, it, i, and, with, them, than, of, have, that, no, our, in, you, your, on, track, how, many, when, axle, over are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, it, i, they, and, with, who, without, for, your, when, having, let are repeated.

    The author used the same words we, i, the, what, our, having, a 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 us, it, said, sea, trees, asphodels, light, you, fathers are repeated).

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  • summary of Mythistorema;
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