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

Children of my happier prime,
When One yet lived with me, and threw... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcbcdedeeXcXdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011001 11110111 01110111 1011111001 110011001 111101111 01011111 01111111 11010101 11001101 11100101 11111001 11010110 01000101 010010100 11110101 10001010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 591
  • Average number of words per stanza: 106
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, spare are repeated.

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