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

And while he spoke there was a noise without;
The curtains of the door were flung aside,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacdaefeagbdchacXfdgaaifXXfaacgjbXbdkX ebebbjbalbgdXgb afhXfX jcaXaXdeabcmfngffgffafeaiofpja cmcbfXgn jXXaidpaedX qccaXnombedii bjohfidX dfpbabeafgfX jaaafbXagfbgXXcbfXgaXbdaXajbabegppXapXagXfba bfXXejXX abbberkhjejjbqfXbbaXmjjpb XahbrXbhbjXbhnfjbmokgaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,15,6,30,8,11,13,8,12,44,8,25,40,10,37,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111110101 0100010101 1101011011 010101 0101 0101010111 1100010100 1001110101 1011011001 01001010101 11001111101 0111010101 1011111101 1111111101 0101111100 1111011101 1001011101 1011010101 1101111001 0101110101 1101010011 1101111100 1011010101 11011111101 1001010111 1101011100 10110101010 01010011101 1101110001 11110011100 1101010101 11011011111 1111111101 0100011111 11011101000 0101011111 1011011101 1111111101 110111 0101 1111010101 0101010101 1101011101 01001110111 0111000101 0111010111 0101011101 0101011101 0101111101 1011110101 0101010101 0111110100 1101111111 10011101011 11011111101 1111011101 0101110001 11110101001 1101010111 11010111001 1111011101 1001111101 0101110101 1001010100 1101011001 11010101101 10110111011 11011111011 11110111101 0111010111 0101111001 1101110100 1011110111 1111111101 000111101 00110011101 1011110101 1110110101 1101011101 1101010111 1101110011 1101000111 1111000101 0101110001 11000110111 0101011011 0101111101 0111011101 1011010111 1111010101 1101111011 1101000101 1010000111 11110111111 1101100101 1101111101 0111010111 11110100001 110101 1110 1101010110 1111111111 0101110101 1101011111 0101110101 1111010011 110001 1111 10111100011 1111110100 100011000101 1010110101 1101011111 1101110101 0101010001 1100110011 1110110100 10010011101 1111010101 1011111111 1011111101 1101001 1111 1101011111 1011010011 1111110111 0111101101 1111110101 111101111 1111101111 1101010101 1001110101 0111010101 11110100111 1111010101 1101010101 11001010101 1101010101 0111110001 1111111010 11010001111 0101111110 010111001010 0111010111 01010000101 1001110111 0101011101 0101101101 00101010101 10101011101 0101010101 1101 110101 1111011111 01011111110 11011111010 1011011111 01000111011 011001101001 1111110101 1101010111 1111110101 1111011 101 1111111101 1111110101 1101111101 1101010101 11000110101 1011110011 1101010110 0110111101 0101110101 111100010111 1011111111 0111011101 1111111101 1001011111 1111110111 1101 011101 1101100111 1111010111 1101000101 0001000111 0101010111 1111010101 1001010111 1111010110 010000110000 1101010011 10011001110 1111011101 1101011111 100110101 1001010111 1111010011 1001111101 0101010111 01011100101 0001110101 0100110111 1111111101 01001110101 1101110101 1111111111 0001001111 0101011100 11011101010 00011 10101 111110101 011111101 1101111101 0101101111 1111011111 0111110101 1001001111 11010111001 1101000111 1111110111 1101110100 1010010001 1101110101 101101 1101 1011101100 1001111111 1101011011 11010010110 11111010101 1101111111 1111000111 1111010101 10100110111 0100110101 0111010011 10101010101 1111100111 1101111111 1111111111 0111011110 10001100110 1101011101 1101011101 1110111111 1111010001 11110100 01 1101010100 1110010111 1011110101 10010101001 1101111101 1111010111 1101011101 11010101101 0101110011 01011011111 1101111011 1100110101 1110010100 1111010111 11101001101 0101010101 0111010101 1110010101 1111110101 1101000101 1001000101 0011000101 10011101101 0111010001 0100110011 11110 11110 1101001101 1111001101 1101010101 0011101101 1101110111 0101011111 1101011101 11100101101 1101010001 1011011101 1100110101 1001001101 11010 10101 1100111101 1101111101 01011010101 1101110111 1100001101 1111110101 0111110111 1101000101 1111010101 1100111101 0111111100 1101011101 1101010011 01111101101 0101111101 01011
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 861
  • Average number of words per stanza: 166
  • Amount of lines: 306
  • 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, to, his, their, i, them, turn, ye, some, of, that, it, you, him, world, thou, thy, he, love are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to, by, the, a, thou, he, an 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.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines forbear, ', thyself 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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