This is an analysis of the poem Universally Respected that begins with:

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Biggs was missing: Biggs had vanished; all the town was in a ferment;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXc XbXb bdbdefeg hghg gigi cXch djdj kfkX kfkX hlhl mnmn hbhb hbhX Xbkbklala kXka hchc fff f cfcg blbl ckck obob epep kjkj cdcd Xhbhb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,4,4,3,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1110111010110001 101011101110101 0110101110100100 011010101010011 1011101010101111 11101010111001 0111001001101010 001010100010001 1011101000101010 101010101110101 010100111111010 1110100111010101 11101111101010100 111000101111101 11100010011010100 101010010010101 0010101010101010 001010101010101 0010101001101110 101010110010001 1110001110100010 101110101010001 1010111001110010 1011001101010001 1010101010100010 111100111010101 10110010011111110 1010101000100010 1011100111101010 001110101010101 110101110101010 111011101110101 110101011101010 01000101110111 1111101010100010 111001100010100 1110110000101010 001010111110100 1111101010101010 101010101010100 1011111110100110 111011001010101 1110101010100010 101001110010111 101111100100010 001010111011101 1110001001100010 00101010011101 1010011110110110 101110101010101 101010001100110 101000101011001 1110101011100010 11010001010001 1010011010101010 11000101001000100 1 11101011110101110 10111011101101 0011111011000010 101001101110101 0010010010111111 1110101000110001 1110101010100111 001010001010101 1111101011100010 100100100110100 0010001001101010 11010101110101 111111010100010 101010101111101 1111001010011010 111100101011100 0111101001101110 101110101110001 1111110110101010 111000101010101 0110111110101010 101011000011101 1010011010100010 001010100010101 1010111011111110 10101010110011 1001101010111010 101011111010101 1111101011101000 001010111111101 1001101110100010 011010101111101 1010101110100010 111000101110111 1110101000101010 011001111111110 11101010011101010 111100101010101 1110001010111010 11101011011101 1110101011100010 11110111110111 1010101011001110 101010001011001 1111001110101010 1010011101010001 1010001000100010 101010001110101 110101010101010 01011111010001 111110100110110 111010100010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 26
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 111
  • Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of, for, and, he, our, that, we, i, it, had, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, said are repeated.

    The author used the same words but, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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