This is an analysis of the poem A Problem In Dynamics that begins with:
An inextensible heavy chain
Lies on a smooth horizontal plane,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabc ddXcaaeeff eeXXggXgaa hhcXhhfXiiffaaffeeeejj bbaXffXXhXaaeehhee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,10,10,22,18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11000101 110110101 1010100110 01000101001 11001001001 01100111001 110010111 01101101001 10011010010 101011111010 111101110100 01101110100 11010010 0010010110010 010010011010 001001110010 101111011001 11001001001 110100110100 01110101101100 01001010111 100100111100 11001001001 11001000001 1100110100101 0101100100101 1100110100101 110010010100 0100010110100 10101000100101 10100100010100 1110000010011000100 0110110000101 0110100111101 10100101100101 1101101100100 001001101001 01001001001 011010010110 1010010111110 0010111011010 110010010010 011010011010 1011010010010 11011111001 001011011001 11001010010 1001001100 011010010010 011101010100 010110010010 010010011010 01101010010 00100110110100 11000100100100 11110101111101 11001101001 101011001001 011010111010 110010010010 010101111010 0011010100010 01101011011 111011001001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 577
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines a is repeated).
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