This is an analysis of the poem A Youthful Experiment In English Hexameters that begins with:

IMPRESSIONS OF HOMER
Sometimes come pauses of calm, when the rapt bard, holding his heart back,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XXabXccbccXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010010 0111001101110011 1001110111011010 10011100100011010 111001001110110 10011100010011010 1001110011010010 10011011100110010 110011001110011010 111101110011010 1001001110011010 10010010110011010 10010010010110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 417
  • Average number of words per stanza: 71
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 63 (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; it, in are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

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