This is an analysis of the poem The Letter L. that begins with:
Absent.
We sat on on grassy slopes that meet... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: a abab caca XbXb adad efef gdgd cgch bcbc iaia bjbj bgbg dcdc ajaj kckc ahag lili llll jgjg bmbM anan ojoj ibib gaga jbjb cdcd apap lblb fnfn gmgM dada mbmb bqXq cgcg lilX prpr qcqc abXb dXdl XcaX qpqp Xasa Xcgc aiai bibX bfbf ebeb rcrc lnln mnmn gbgb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10 111110111 01010101 01110111 0101 11010101 110010101 11110111 0101 110110001 10110111 11011101 01001 11100101 10010111 11110011 011 01011111 11010111 11010101 0101 11000101 11010101 01110111 1001 110100001 110100111 11011101 0100 11010111 01011101 11010111 1101 11000111 11011110 11111111 11011 11111111 11110101 11010111 0101 01010101 100010101 01011001 0101 01010101 11011101 01000101 1101 01010101 11010101 01010101 11001 11100101 11011101 100100101 0111 01010101 11110100 11110100 1111 10110101 11011101 01010101 1101 11110101 01011111 01010101 1101 111101001 11010101 01011111 1101 10010001 11010101 11010101 0101 11010111 01010101 01011101 1101 11010101 100000111 10010101 1101 11110101 11010001 11011111 1101 01011101 01010111 11010111 0111 10110001 11000101 11111101 1001 11111101 01111101 01000111 1101 11010001 01111001 11010101 1111 01011101 01010001 11110101 1101 1100011 11110101 11010101 0101 11010101 01011111 11010111 0101 11100101 11110101 1101100101 1101 11011101 11010101 11010101 0111 11110101 01011101 110111100 0101 11110001 11011101 11011101 1101 11001101 01011101 0100101 01010 11111111 11110001 01000101 1101 110001001 01010111 11010101 1101 11011101 11101101 01010111 1101 11111001 11010101 11011101 1101 11011101 101101010 11010101 10110 11001101 01010101 11011101 0101 01110001 11110101 11010100 1101 10110100 01010101 11001101 1101 11011111 10110101 111101111 1101 111011111 01100111 11010101 11110 111110101 11010101 11101001 1101 111011111 11111101 01010011 1011 111001101 11100101 11110111 1101 111011110 11010111 11000111 1111 111111111 110011111 010101001 1111 111111101 01010111 11010111 0111 111011101 01011101 01010011 11010 1101000101 11010001 01010101 0101 111111100 01010101 11111111 0111 111111101 011110001 11010111 0101 111011101 11011101 111110001 0101 111111101 11010101 11100101 1101 111010110 01010101 11011101 0011 111111111 01110101 11010101 1101 111110111 01010011 11110111 1111 110011101 11010101 11011111 0101 111000101 11110101 01010001 1101 111011111 11010101 10111111 1101 11110111 01010111 11110101 01001 111101101 01010111 01010101 1010 110111110 01110101 11010100 111 110101110 11110001 11010110 1101 111101111 01010011 11000101 1101 111010011 11000101 11110001 1101 11000101 01111100 11010011 0001 111011111 11111101 11011101 1101 111010101 11000101 11111111 1101 111011111 01111001 11010001 0101 111011101 11001101 101010101 0101 111111101 11111101 11011101 1101 111011111 01011101 110010111 1111 11001101 010010110 11011101 1101 111010101 01110001 11010111 1101 111100101 11110001 11010100 1101 111010001 11010101 01010111 0101 111010001 11010001 010010101 1101 111110001 110111101 10111111 1100 110010101 11111101 11010111 1101 1101010101 1111011 11010101 0111 111111011 11111001 11011111 11100 111100101 010010101 01110101 1101 110010101 01010101 110010111 1111 1110101011 11010101 11111101 11111 01110101 11110111 11110101 0101 11000101 01010101 11011111 1111 11001101 01011101 01011101 1111 11010101 01010101 11010101 1111 10010011 11010101 01000111 1111 11011001 01110101 10111100 1101 11001101 01011010 01111100 01010 100011101 01011100 11110101 1111 111111110 11011101 011111000 1111 11010111 01010101 11100101 1101 11110101 10111111 010100111 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 100
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 395
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and, not, to, it, ', for, no, of, she, their, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, a, , 'there, by, no, i, nor are repeated.
The author used the same words and, 'and, 'there, ' 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 , ' are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases , ' connect the lines.
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