This is an analysis of the poem Seven Times One that begins with:

SEVEN TIMES ONE. EXULTATION.
There's no dew left on the daisies and clover,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abab abab cdcd bebe fgfg ahah ijij e kjkj ckck Xblb ajaj adad aiai agaX ijij X aiaimmi ajajddj ananiin aXaimmi l EHkhXh EbfbiXb Edkdkd EHaheah X bobo ngng jmjm kXXk Ximi jojo XXXi gggg X MKmkMKmk GigiGggX GkgkGkgk Gkgkmkmk p j ifiddX X ifippif X iiiimj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,7,7,7,7,1,6,7,6,7,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,8,8,8,8,1,1,6,1,7,1,9,1,6,1,8,1,8,15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111000 11111010110 1111010 11110110110 1011110 11111111010 1111011 0111111110 1110111 11001111110 1101111 10111111010 11101101 11111101010 1111011 110111010010 1101011 1101101010 1101101 1111001110 1111001 11011011010 1111011 11001101010 1101111 11111001100 1011001 11111111010 11101101 101101 110010111110 1101010 110111111110 11011001 111010111110 1100101 111010111010 0100101 101110111100 1011001 101101101100 1101101 111011101110 1111100 1100110111010 1101001 011110011010 0100101 1110111011010 1101101 1111110011110 1110111 111111011110 1111101 111011111010 11111111 110010011110 1101011 111110011010 11111101 011010110110 1111000 10111 111010110110 11101011101 101011111110 11001111001 111011 001101 111101 110010110110 01001111001 010010110110 011110011111 101101 101101 111001 111110110110 01011011011 110111011010 01111001011 111011 101101 11111 111110111110 11111001101 1010111110110 11011111011 111111 1101101 001111 10110100 11101101 1101011011 10111110010 11001111011 111011110110 1001001 11101101 101100101 10010010110 11011011011 1111110101 10 1111001 11101101 1101011111 011011011010 11011011101 110111111010 1011111 11101101 1101011011 011011010110 11111001011 1111101100 10 1101011 1011100 11111111 0111101 11111101 11111 11011101 00111111 11011101 111011 11111101 1011011 111100101 10011 11101101 1010101 11011011 10111 11111110 1100001 10111111 11111 11011101 1111011 111101101 11111 11101110 1010101 110111010 11010 11010101 11100101 11110001 10101 101110010 010101 011101 01111101 111101 010101 011101 01111111 010101 010101 101101 01111111 011101 010101 011111 11011111 101111 111111 011101 11011111 111101 111111 1101001 11011101 011010 010101 111101 110100111 111111 110111 110101 01010101 011101 101101011 1 01001 111011010 101100101 1011100111 1011110111 11101011 1 1101111101 110010010 110110101 110110111 1110100111 1111100101 11101010 1 111111001 10011 1111111001 01011 111110111 10101001 11111001001 1111101 11 1 01001 111010010 100101111 11111001 1011001011 01011010 1 111111001 10011 1110100101 01001 1101101010 010101101 0101111010 1110111 1 110101011 110101 11011011101 1111101 111011101 11001001 0010100101 11111101 1 111100101 1101 1100111101 1111001 1111111101 110111 1111111111 110111 110111101 10111100 100111111 010111 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 56
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 252
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i, it, and, to, my, more, her, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there's, you, i, let, o, to, thy, and, a are repeated.

    The author used the same words o, i, heigh, to 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 me is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase keep connects the lines.

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