This is an analysis of the poem A Story Of Doom: Book Ii. that begins with:

Now ere the sunrise, while the morning star
Hung yet behind the pine bough, woke and prayed... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcdedfgbehXeijbgXgfajgegdhkjlbljXX fkbiceXbjgcgXejeXbclaekkidhjXafkmnbbXXlXeobleiapdXiiieX eefXbXleqrfnedgshjijbjgljebaXiefekejblpbgejbketeegbXbeiXfaeebbfklbledXkaXkjlffXtjlhbljbabtX jjcccelujeuXbbdbqeebaX eeiXbXqkXeorlllefbjaafX flufkfbX uhlrble cXbclp
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,55,91,22,23,8,7,20,72,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110101 1101011111 0111110111 0101110001 01011010111 0101011111 0101011001 0101111101 1011010101 0011010101 111111 1111 1101010111 0110110111 0101011011 1001001101 1111000111 0101111111 1101011101 1101010111 1111111111 1100011111 0111101111 1111000101 11010000111 10110010101 1101100101 1101010101 1111111111 0101110011 1111010011 01111011101 10101011101 0101010111 11010010110 01010100111 1111111101 1001010011 10011100101 1011110101 1101010111 0111010111 111111111110 1111011101 1011110111 0111010101 10010111111 1101011101 100100111110 1111010111 1101101101 1101001100 1101010111 1111010101 1111110101 1001110101 0101011111 0101111101 1111100101 0111111101 1101110101 1110011001 11010110101 0101110111 1101011101 0111010001 1111110111 01110000101 1000010111 1101010001 11010010101 1101000101 1101010101 1101000110 0111011111 1101111110 1001000011 1001000111 1111110101 1111011111 1111011011 1100110111 1010110111 01010011101 1111011111 0101010111 11010011111 1011110011 1111101011 1010010101 0111110 1111 0101111111 1111011101 0101010101 1101111111 1100110101 1111111101 1101011111 0111111100 1111010101 01011101011 0111011111 0111010101 1101010101 1101110011 0101110111 1011010111 0101110111 1101001100 0101011101 1111010111 0100011111 1101010101 1111010101 1111010101 1100110101 11010111011 1011011111 0101010 111 1001010101 1001010111 1001110111 01001010101 0111001011 0101010101 1111010001 1101110101 0101110111 01011000101 0111111001 0101010101 1101010011 1100011111 0101010101 1101111101 1101010100 0100100001 0111010111 10110101101 1101110111 101100 1111 1001110101 1111110101 1101110100 1101010101 1101111001 1111001101 1111011101 1111111101 11010010011 1111000101 100110101 1001111101 1101010101 1111011101 1111011101 110010010101 1101011110 0110010011 1100111101 1100011100 1000010011 1101111101 10111110101 1101011111 0111110111 1111000100 1011110100 10101010111 11110010101 1101110110 0100110101 1001010111 1111010101 1101011101 1111011101 01001111001 1101010100 10100110 101 0101110101 11011010111 1101010101 1111011011 1101010111 0101001101 0101011100 11001010101 1101010111 00101011100 1001011111 1111010101 1011100101 1001011111 1011010101 11010101010 1101010111 11001011100 0101010111 1101011011 110001 0111 10111110111 0101010101 1100010111 1101011111 0110111110 011111001110 1111001111 101101001110 1111010111 1011001101 10011101001 1011111111 11110111111 1101011111 1111010101 0101001101 1001010111 1011011111 1101111111 0101010011 11011011111 1111110101 0111010111 1111110101 1001010100 11110011101 1100011111 01111110101 00100111101 1101010101 11011000100 10001010101 1101011100 0101110101 1101010101 1101011101 010010101 11 0101011100 0111010101 1101110101 1101011101 0111111111 11111100101 0101000111 11010110111 111011111 0101110101 1111010101 1101001101 0011000111 1101110111 1101011010 1111010111 100110100 00101010111 11110 111011 0011011101 1101010111 1001011101 1111011111 11101010111 1001010011 0111011111 0111101101 11000101101 1001001101 1101110111 1101011111 11001110101 1001001101 1001110111 1101111101 1101110111 0101011101 11011110111 0111001001 1101010101 11010111011 1101011000 0101110111 1111111111 0101010111 11010101101 01110010101 1111001111 1101111111 1111000100 1101111101 0101001101 1101000101 1101000111 1111110100 0111110101 1001010111 11110111001 1101110101 0111010011 1101011111 1101111111 1001111101 10110110111 0101110111 01001011101 010101 0101 0111011011 1100011111 0111011111 1111111101 1001011111 1100110111 1111011100 1101011000 11011010101 10110001110 1011110111 10111100101 0111111101 1001010101 111111111101 0101001101 1101001101 1101011101 1001001111 10110010100 1100010111 10010 010111 1101111101 1111001101 1011011111 1110110101 10111001000 1101110101 0101010011 1111110111 0101011101 1001010100 0101011000 11010110101 11110011101 1101010111 1001010101 0001010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1496
  • Average number of words per stanza: 288
  • Amount of lines: 351
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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, he, his, i, ye, would, old, in, thou, to, ', man, they, him, earth, that, my, of, me are repeated.

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

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines come, man are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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