This is an analysis of the poem Sun-Testament that begins with:

I, The Sun, Lord of the Sky, sojourning in the Land of Sky, being of sound mind and memory, do hereby make, publish and declare the following to be... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a b c d X e e X b e d X a a X X X X d c d e e c c d XXeee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101100110000101100111100101110101010000110110001010110110011010010101111011011 11010110111011001001100111010100100101001010010100101010101001 101110110100110111001000110100010100101101001011001010111000100011001011010101101100011101 111110010110100011110101110001000101010110101011011000111010101000011001001100001 1111100101010110100100111111011101001010100101001011101010101101110100110110101101101 1111100111100111001011101010 11111000101000101110101001 10111100010101101010001001111111000100011110 1111100100100010001001101111101 11111000110101001010010100110 111110011001010101010001 0101111001001010101010010001011011010001010010 1111100100010101101101111001 1111110010011001110010100101001 111111001010101011110 0111110010100110 01111100110010110000111100101001010100 1011111001001000100101110010001010000100001011101010000101110000100010001000100100111101000101111011101000101101010100010101011001011100010 01111101100101111000111001010010101100101001101110011100010 111111001011011101011000110010011 100111101000100110001100010100111010101010101100110010001 1011111000100101000101000100100010100100010001010001010110110100111001010100 1010101101101001010101011101000101010100101011000010101111110010111011100100010101000111000100001110101000111111000101101001001101011001001101111111 1011011001011011000100100111001000100001101100 010111111111110010100010010110111111100101110101011101101 101 1110101101010001111101011000010011100110010100100110110001111100100 10010 100010 100000100
  • Amount of stanzas: 28
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 178 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 32
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, to, my, be, i, or, taxes, by, all, duties, sun, any, hereby, estate, legacy, sky, give, bequeathe, in, each, temple, this, fund, twenty, his, presence, signed are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words twenty, signed are repeated.

    The author used the same words twenty, signed at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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