This is an analysis of the poem On The Bill Which Was Passed In England For Regulating The Slave-Trade that begins with:

The hollow winds of night no more
In wild, unequal cadence pour,... full text

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,60,80,84,54,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010111 01010101 110101001 01010001 01110101 01110101 11010101 11010101 11110011 10110101 01010111 010100101 11110101 10110101 010101010 100110010 11010111 010101001 11010111 010001001 11011101 01010101 01110001 01010101 11010101 11010101 01010101 01111101 11010101 11010001 10010101 11010111 1100111000 111011101 01011101 01110101 11010101 010100101 111100101 01010101 11011101 01110101 11011001 01011001 110100101 11010101 10010101 11011101 11010101 10110101 11110101 01111101 110100101 11010101 11111001 010010101 101101110 110101010 100100111 010110101 01110101 01010101 111101010 111101010 01010101 11110101 01010101 01000101 01010101 11110101 01011101 11011101 01011111 01000101 110100101 10100101 11010001 01110101 10011011 11010101 01010101 01011101 00110111 01010101 10110101 01000101 01001101 01011101 11110101 11010101 11100101 11010101 101111010 11011101 11000101 10110001 11010101 11010101 10110101 11010101 110111001 11111101 11010101 01110101 11010101 10110110 11110111 01010101 11110101 11010101 111100101 11010101 11000101 11011101 011101001 10010101 11010101 01110101 11010101 11010101 11010101 01001111 11110101 01011101 11100101 01110001 11011101 11010001 11110101 10110101 10010111 01010101 01111111 11010101 11010111 01010101 10010101 11010101 10010111 01110101 01010101 110100111 11110001 11010111 11000101 01010101 01011101 11010101 11110101 01011101 01010101 11011111 11010101 11011101 01010001 01011101 11110101 11010110 10010101 01010101 11010011 110100101 11011101 01010101 11110111 010101001 11011101 11010101 11010111 01100101 11011101 01010101 01111111 11010101 11010101 01010101 01010111 11010111 010110101 11010101 101100111 11010101 11010101 11011101 101110001 11001111 01110101 01010011 01010101 11010101 1100010001 10100101 10010101 01010111 11110101 11010101 111010001 11010111 01010111 01011001 01110101 11111101 10110101 01010101 11111101 11010101 11010101 11011101 01010101 11010101 10110101 01011101 01010101 01001111 11111111 01000101 11010101 01000101 11111101 110010101 11010101 01010111 11010101 01011101 11110101 11010101 110100110 010101010 11000111 11011101 11001101 01000101 110101101 11010101 110101010 01110001 11010101 01010101 01010101 0100101 101101001 01010101 10010101 11110101 11000101 11110101 01010001 1101001010 01010001 11010001 11110101 010100111 110010110 01111110 110100101 01001001 10110101 11111101 11010101 01010101 110100101 01110111 11010111 01000111 10110101 01110101 110010101 1101010001 11010101 010100101 10110101 10010101 11010101 11011101 11010101 110011101 010010101 11010101 11010111 10010101 11010101 11011101 11110101 11110101 10011101 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2043
  • Average number of words per stanza: 354
  • Amount of lines: 286
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; for, them, of, that, each, in, its, to are repeated.

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

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