This is an analysis of the poem Ausplex that begins with:
My heart, I cannot still it,
Nest that had song-birds in it;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaab cdecde fdgfdg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 1111100 110111 0101010 0101110 111111 1101010 0101010 110111 1111010 1111110 0010011 0101010 1101110 100101 0111010 11001010 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 541
- Average number of words per stanza: 97
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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