This is an analysis of the poem The Midnight Axe that begins with:
I.
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbc dede efefdcdc fbfb fgfg hbhb ecec fifi jkjk cgdg lclc Xfhfh cbcb bbbb cbcb bmbm jbjb kXk b dndn dgdg eaea abab iXif dbdb gbgb bbbX cccc fbfb eheh Xofof fcfc bbbb caca bbbX cgcg gbgb hfhf bhb h bebe bbbb ebeb caca hhhh nbnb Xfefe mfmfbcbcm hmh pcpc i
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,3,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,9,3,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,4,2,2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,3,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1 011110101 1011111 111110111 10100111 110110111 0100101 1011110101 1001101 1100110111 1010101 10010101 11100101 011010101 110111 11100101001 101111 100110101 1010111 11110011 1011101 010110111 10100111 0100100111 1111111 11010101 1101111 11011101001 110111 111011101 110110 1010101101 1110101 01111101 1110101011 1110100101 0100111 110010111 1100101 011011001 1110101 0101101001 10110101 0100101101 011001 1010100101 1010101 110100101 10100101 1 0111100101 1101001 010101101 011111 0010010111 110101 110111001 100101 01001000101 0101001 111011011 011111 110100101 101101 110010101 1100101 11110111 110111 110010101 111101 1111101001 10110111 11110111 100101 101110101 010110 110010101 110001 111110001 111001 10001001 010101 1010110101 1010111 101110101 1110101 110111101 110011001 110100101 110101 1110110111 011101 110100101 1100001 111010101 1101110 10100110101 1011101 010100101 1000111 10001101 110101 11110001 1100101 01011111 110101 01110111 111101 111011101 0101100 110100101 11010111 1100100101 110111 11011111 11100101 110111111 011101 10101001001 110101 11110101 0010101 1 1011110101 1101111 10101101 011111 01011101 1010101 10011101 010110 110010111 010111 110101101 1010111 1011011101 1100101 0110100111 010101 100011111 110101 010000101 1110110 110100111 1110101 0101100001 011101 101101111 111101 0101111001 011111 11100100101 100101 1011100111 101111 011111011 1100101 11010101 110001 1101111111 111100 11101101001 1000101 10011101 11100111 01110101 1101111 1110101001 10100111 111010100 1010101 111110101 01110101 1111111101 0100111 11110101 111101 011101001 110101 1010111001 1110101 110010101 011101 1 0110101101 011101 01110111 1011101 01011101 010111 101000111 0010111 111100101 010101 11011101 10100101 010111101 1101101 111111111 111011 11101110101 1101010011 1111100101 1110101 111011011 0101101 101100100 1010101 1110100101 11100011 111011101 0010111 010011111 1010111 111010101 11101110 11110101 111111 001101101 0100101 1110110111 1101101 0110010111 110101 111101001 1110101 101100111 110101 11010101 0101001 01110101 010101 01110111 11001001 010010101 110101 11011101 1110100 11000100 101101 011101111 010101 111010101 1100101 010101001 110111 11000101 010101 111100101 0010111 1110100111 010111 11111111 110111 01010111 111101 111010101 10101101 11110111 111111 11011111 011111 10010101 111111 100101001 0110111 01100101 1110101 111110111 111111 111011111 1100010 111111101 11110101 1010011111 101111001 111110111 101010110 11101100111 011111 11110010100 111101 111011111 0100101 1101111001 111101 111010111 01001101 111010111 00101001 111100101 1110101 101111101 111111 11011110 11110111 11110101 111101 11011101 110111 10110111 11011001 111111111 11100111 001011101 1110101 1110110101 11101111 0110010101 1101011 1110101001 0011101 11101100111 111011 01010111 010001 1011111111 001101 101011111 1111001 111110111 101111 010111001 11111101 110100101 1011111 11110111101 0101111 1110111101 11101101 1110101111 00100101 110010101 1010101 111101101 0110111 111010111 100101 0101111101 1111101 11111111 110101 101011101 010111 10101111 1110100 110111101 10100111 010111101 0101001 110011101 1100111 1100101001 101101 011111101 1100101 1110110111 1110101 011100101 111101 11100111101 110111 010010101 1100101 011110111 1010101 1110100101 1101001 101010101 011111 011101101 011111 010110101 11111101 10111111 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 95
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 376
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; of, his, he, or, in, nor, and, i, would, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, nor, and, he, the, his, i are repeated.
The author used the same words from, and, he, three, when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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