This is an analysis of the poem Noey Bixler that begins with:

Another hero of those youthful years
Returns, as Noey Bixler's name appears.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeffggaXhhccbXbbiiddaXaajjiieekkhhbbffeXhhccdd jjkkffXdllggmmnnn ccaabbggccccee bXhhffhhnXffggnXooXeX ooaaaaccnnXXffXjiiffcchheebbee nneeffcccckkaacceeiiXeennccffggee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,46,17,14,21,30,33,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101001100 011110101 110010101 1100010111 1100001001 0101001111 1101010111 110101101 1111011101 0011111101 1101010001 1101111111 010000010111 0011001110 0011011101 1011011101 0101110101 0100101111 1001011101 1101010001 110111101 1111110100 1111100101 1111110101 1111010111 1101111111 0111111011 1111011111 1101111101 11011111110 111011101 11011100100 0111011111 011111111 11110011001 1101111111 1101010101 1111010101 0101110101 1111011101 111101011 1101110101 1101010111 1101010001 0111110101 0101101101 01011101001 1111010101 1101011100 010101111 0101010111 1101011101 1111011101 0101010001 111110101 0111110111 111111101 0101110001 1001110111 1101110101 0101011111 1101011111 1111010111 0111000111 111110101 10110101001 0101010101 1101111101 1101110001 0101010111 1101 110111 011111101 0101010011 1101111101 01110101001 0101011101 110101101 0101000100 0011010110 0011011111 0101010001 1011000100 0101010011 1001011101 1101011101 1011110100 111010111 0101110101 0111010111 01001011101 0100011111 0111010111 0111110101 111111101 0101010001 1101011111 0101011111 1100111100 010110101 100001000 1111011101 0101010101 111010101 10111101001 0011001 101 0001011100 1101010101 110001111 0111010011 1100010001 1101010101 1101110101 1101010101 1111010101 0101011111 111011101110 01001010001 1101010101 1101011101 1111010101 011100101 1101010111 0101000101 1101010111 1111010001 11011000111 1100110101 11000111101 0101110101 100101101 1101000101 1111110111 11111100101 0111010111 0101010101 1001110101 0110100001 0101001101 1111111101 0101000101 111001011 1001000111 01001010111 0101111101 0100111101 01010011001 01010101010 0101010111 0101010101 1100010100 110001010001 1001011111 1101000101 1101110111 1111010101 0101110101 0100010101 11001010101 1101011001 01010100011 1001010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101011111 0101100111 0101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 876
  • Average number of words per stanza: 160
  • Amount of lines: 168
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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, you, him, ', it, with are repeated.

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

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

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