This is an analysis of the poem The Sundays Of Satin-Legs Smith that begins with:

Inamoratas, with an approbation,
Bestowed his title. Blessed his inclination....

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa bbb aac ded faagcbchcgbibhhXdjkc cidjiiddaii fXbdaabkkdlmdn oh dhk giiXXmm baaagb omnohXnnomjXaaib kdipXpkkpXXXdpedXmdqnbmqbdm blaXdad haamm mpdbXd ddbddkaknimdmid cc kXibjb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,3,3,20,11,14,2,3,7,6,16,27,7,5,6,15,2,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10000011010 01010101010 1110010001 1001010101 11010100101 1101010101 1101010111 1100010100 1100010101 101000010010 01010101010 110111011100 1101010001 1101011011 11011101010 1101111101 1111000101 1001000100 01010110101 00110100100 10000101010 1011010100 0100110101 0101010001 0111010101 1101101101 0100010110 11000010101 10011111001 1101110001 1101010101 1111010001 0101011001 01010111010 00010101011 1101011111 0111010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101001111 1101010011 11011101010 00010011001 01000101001 110011011 1101010111 1101010101 0101110111 01010101 1101010101 0101110101 1001010 111 11010101001 11010111001 1011010101 1011111111 01010010101 0101110001 1110110101 1101010101 1101011100 01010101001 1100010101 0111010000 1001001101 0010010001 101010101 1101010001 0111010001 1001010101 1111010001 0111011101 1101001111 1001111101 1111010111 1101100101 1001010111 1100 110111 01010111111 0011100010001 101011100 0110010101 10010010000 101010101010 1001110011 1011010101 11110101001 101110011 11111101010 1011011101 0101010101 10010001001 0101110111 01010010001 1011010101 0101010101 1101000101 0100 110 10110 1110010101 01010111110 1110111101 11111100101 1110010100 1101010101 1111010111 0101010111 1111100101 01010110101 01010101001 0100110111 1101110100 0111010101 0100110101 1111100100 1001010001 100100111000 1101000100 1011110001 1101010100 1101010101 0101110100 1100110001 1010100101 11001101001 10010010111 0101010111 1011110111 01101111101 0111010001 0111000101 1101011101 1011001101 10110011011 1000110001 0100011111 0111110110 11011111010 0101010111 11011101011 1111110 111 11111101110 0111010101 1011011111 01010111010 11010101 01010101 01001111 10011100 01000101 110100111 01001101 01011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 357
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 158
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; his, be, must, not, and, of, s, with, from, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words like, people, and, hundreds are repeated.

    The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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