This is an analysis of the poem Grand Is The Leisure Of The Earth that begins with:
Grand is the leisure of the earth;
She gives her happy myriads birth, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabcccb dddebbbf ggghiiih hhXijjjX gggijjjX ddddhhhX gggeiiif eeehdddX kkkbiiibXjjjggggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10010001 11010101 11010111 11010111 10010101 01111101 111100101 01011101 111111001 1101011 101111001 010101001 01010001 11111101 01010001 01000100 10110111 10010101 11110101 01110101 10010011 11010101 11111101 01000101 11111101 11110111 10110011 11011101 01111111 11111111 11011101 11010100 10111101 01010111 11110001 01000101 11011101 10110101 11110111 1001101000 11110111 10111101 11011101 11110111 11110011 010001001 11011101 10110100 01010111 11111001 10011011 11011001 11001111 10011101 10010101 11010100 00100101 01001101 11111101 010110101 11010101 100111101 11110011 11111000 11010111 01010001 11011101 010000101 11010001 01110011 010100101 11011111 11010101 11010111 11010101 11110101 11110101 11001101 11011111 11010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2909
- Average number of words per stanza: 517
- Amount of lines: 89
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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, afraid, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, i, and are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase afraid connects the lines.
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