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

Night. Now a tent was pitched, and Japhet sat
In the door and watched, for on a litter lay... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdbeffghbgfgabijkbgafagcXiXjfgflXgamfdfglgigegfgeXaajbbiXiakaianfnjopXjXieggahqgggiafkoeefnrXi aekggaXjicfisciiaiiifaaXafgaagagefaXpfbmeXagbjfX eagarXbhijjXgbajX mXqbXbfgfrgic iigbcgakgcXn bpgaXX iegfgpsX XmkrfgXbarcahXX XglgXagjXm ihkblqqXgcggXcigqgcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 96,48,17,13,12,6,8,15,10,20,6,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101111101 00111110101 0100011111 0111011111 1101011101 1111010101 1101110101 1111010101 1101010111 010010101010 1101110111 11010101 01 1101010101 0101011101 1111110111 011001001 11010100101 0101110101 0101000111 1101011101 0101110111 1111111101 1101010111 1001010111 1010011111 1100011000 1101110011 111101010 0111111101 1101011101 0001011101 11011101010 1001011101 0110111111 1111010111 1011010111 100010100101 01110011111 1110110101 1001110101 1111110100 0100110101 100100001101 1101011100 1101010101 1010011101 1111011101 1111011111 11110111010 1101010101 0101110111 1001110111 01001011101 1001011101 1101010011 0101111111 1101000101 1011110 111 1101010001 0101010111 01101111111 0101011101 0101111101 110010111010 0101111101 100110101110 1101000101 1111111101 1001011111 1111011111 1101101101 1101111101 1101010101 1111011100 01011100111 00101010101 1100110111 0111111100 0101010111 1101010111 1111111101 1101011101 1101011101 0111011111 0101011111 1001011101 1101010111 1001010101 10100010100 1110010111 10101010100 1101010001 11001010111 1011001111 0101010111 11010100101 11011101011 1011010101 1101011101 10110111111 010001011 1111011101 10110100001 1101011101 0100010111 01001010100 1101100101 1101011101 1111011101 1101010101 1011011111 1011001101 1100010011 0101 1101001 1101001101 1001111101 1101110110 1101101111 1011011110 1101010111 1101010101 1101010001 1111111111 1101010101 01001011101 1101010101 1101111101 0101111111 01010111101 1101011101 1101011111 1011010101 1101110111 0101011111 1101011101 0101011111 1101011111 1100111111 1101111101 1111110111 1011111010 1110010111 1101011111 0101011111 1111010101 0101011101 11010110100 0101010101 00101010100 11000110111 11101110100 1101110110 1101010110 1101110011 1101101111 1011001111 0101111110 1111100 1111 0100010111 11111101001 1001011111 1001100101 1101011111 11110111001 1111010101 1101011101 1011011111 1111010101 1111010101 1100111 1101 0101011101 1111001111 1101010011 1101000111 0111111111 1111111111 1111010101 1111011101 0111111111 1101001111 1111110 101 1101110101 1111010011 1111110001 1101010001 11011111110 1101011111 1111011101 1101010111 11110101001 1111110011 10110111001 11110010111 1001011111 1101011011 1100111101 1101110101 11001110101 1101001101 1100011111 1101111111 1101001110 1111011101 1101011111 1111010101 1101111111 1111001100 0111011100 1111000101 1100110101 1101010111 1100010011 1101010111 1101110100 1101011110 0101110101 1100110101 1010011101 110101 1111 1101011100 1101110101 1111110101 1011011101 1111010111 1101010111 0111110111 1111000011 0101110101 0100111111 11010100001 1111010101 10011011111 01011101001 1101100101 1101110001 1111000101 1111110101 111101 11010 1101011111 1011010111 1111110111 1111111101 1101010 001 1101101101 0101010101 0101010100 0111010 1101 10111010111 1101110111 0111110001 1101111101 1001110111 1111111101 1111110111 1111110101 1100011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 936
  • Average number of words per stanza: 179
  • Amount of lines: 266
  • 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, had, of, he, i, his, them, ', for, be, thou, it, to, your are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them, ', wrong 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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