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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb cddee ffeec XXggc XXXXc hhggc bbiic X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 0,4,5,5,5,5,5,5,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100111111 11110101 11010111 11110101 10 11111101 010100001 11011111 111010101 101111101 11111011 11100101 11111100 10 111111101 11010101 11110111 11110111 10 111010111 01001111 11011111 11111110 10 111110111 01111101 11011101 11100101 10 1110111101 01110001 11110001 10011101 10
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word is repeated.

    The author used the same word at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.

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