This is an analysis of the poem Bkii:Viii Faithless Barine that begins with:

If any punishment ever visited
you, Barine, for all your perjuries, if you...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcX ddXX aeXc eaeX beea eeXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010010100 11011110001 01011110101 01101 111111101111 10111001101 110011111000 1011 01101111010 10111101010 10101011110 010101 10011101111 01011111010 11110001010 10111 11111110111 11111101110 10101010101 11010 10101101011 10101101101 11010011100 11010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; you, by are repeated.

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