This is an analysis of the poem The Masque Of Pandora that begins with:

THE WORKSHOP OF HEPHAESTUS
HEPHAESTUS (standing before the statue of Pandora.) ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abXccXdefggfhci cX Xe Cjc Xg CieklXmhdn XX c ocdoeooe l g XXicipipi apbbppbbpgdcgdX XceXedfdf X c gglpeeieghfcqopdoqbXXldgedo X c XXogebkbgX o abge Xfeqg aXco gl Xi gii Xrgmelb gbgg Xpb ggji Xc gi Xepc gpb Xgrhq abi Xb ab Xdlkpop ggb Xelm gsibck Xjhoccg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,15,2,2,3,2,10,2,1,8,1,1,9,15,9,1,1,27,1,1,10,1,4,5,4,2,2,3,7,4,3,4,2,2,4,3,5,3,2,2,7,3,4,6,8,6,5,2,5,1,10,10,10,1,1,17,1,1,5,4,7,4,9,4,5,4,4,3,5,8,2,3,6,2,8,2,1,7,5,8,12,1,1,4,4,2,8,2,4,5,2,3,3,2,3,9,5,2,2,5,3,1,9,3,2,4,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,7,3,8,6,2,2,7,5,2,2
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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101010110 100111 1001001 1001011 11110010 110101 1001011 101001 110010110 1011011 1011001 100010 1001001 010010110 111101 1011001 1001010 110010010 110101 11010100 101101 01111010 111001 1001011 11010010 11010110 01011100 1001011 100100 110101 01110110 1001101 1011001 1001011 0010010010 1001011 1001001 110101 11010010 1010011 1011001 100101 11010010 100101 1011111 1 0101000 010 1011110110 1111011101 1111010101 01010101111 1100010100 01010000101 1011001001 111001100111 10011100100 1101001101 1001011100 1100110111 110000101001 0111011111 1111010100 0111010101 11000000110 010100100010 11111101111 1101010101 1001010101 1101010001 1100101001 11110100011 11010111010 1011111101 1011111101 10101011101 100 10110111 11010011 11010101 01000101 11001 11010100 011101001 11010101 11110101 010011 11010101 11001101 01010101 11010100 110001 1001001001 110001 000111 11010101001 110101 010101 1101010101 110111 111001 11000001010 110100 110111 01110101010 010100 011101 0100011101 0101010 0001010 0101010111 010011 010101 0111010101 110111 1001111 1101010101 01010 0110111101 1101010101 01001100111 10011100010 11011100010 11011110011 11011101111 1011011100 1101010101 11111110010 0100110101 101001 1101110111 1111010101 1101011100 011101010 110101101 100100101 1010101 00101010 10101010 00100010 1010111 10111001 00101010 1000111 1010011 101010110 10101010 1011111 10001110 00100110 1010101 1 0010 1000 01011011010 1011010101 11010101110 01011010111 01010010101 01010110010 10110110010 11111101010 01010100010 1000001100010 01111101010 01010001 1100011101 0111011111 1011010011 1000 1111 010 0111111 1000 1111 010 1111110 1000 1111 010 111100 1000 11011101011 010 1111110111 11110100110 0101001111 10010001001 1000 1101110101 010 11110011110 1000 1001111111 0100011101 11010101011 01010101010 11110100010 10111 010 11101 0101011001 01010000101 1101011110 1101001111 111101 1000 1111 1111111101 11000111010 1111001111 11010101000 1001010101 010 10111001010 11111 1000 100010 110101 010 11010 10010100110 1111010001 1101010111 110111 1000 1111 0101110101 0101010101 1101010101 10101010101 0101110101 1011011101 10010001010 10010011010 010 01010 1000 101000 1111010111 1101110100 1111 010 11010 10110001101 10110011101 0001011001 10001000 101111 0101000 0101010011 1001101 110001 1101010111 101101 010111 0001010101 1100101 100101 0101010101 101001 011101 110100010010 111101 101110 10010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 180
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 855
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, her, she, i, to, my, and, not, as, thee, them, love, every, for, pity are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words was, the, she, that, and, prometheus, they, often, this, as, nor, every, now, loud, waking, my, to, only are repeated.

    The author used the same words with, never 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 hephaestus, cloud, epimetheus, them, not, love, thee are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words me, love, alone at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases hephaestus, prometheus, epimetheus connect the lines.

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