This is an analysis of the poem The Test Of Fantasy that begins with:

1.
It unfolds and ripples like a banner, downward. All the stories...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aab cdcc efgh ijb X dkl mneihacf nc mcgm Xa oga noc ak naf cpjmh qigeamcearn kc aX X iamfnd hei mbb oei fhaces iommta X mkim fofgnf balXj ncaihbean oh X nh gaem rqd hacsajmbX X aXh gi keXfo hjfn meefcnerh X alc Xrac cbhcibb bjg X chctha lmehcah k
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,4,4,3,1,3,8,2,4,2,3,3,2,3,5,11,2,2,1,6,3,3,3,6,6,1,4,6,5,9,2,1,2,4,3,9,1,3,2,5,4,9,1,3,4,7,3,1,6,7,14,7,8,4,10,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 0011101010101010 110101110010111 0100010101100101100 111011011010011 110101101101011 11101011100100111 1010011 0111010 0100111101101100010 01110100100111 11000010101 10110101010110100 1111010111101 000011001 1 01011010111101 11101001001001010 101001001 1010111100100101 01010101011010 111110101011110 1110101000100100 00110101001011011010 1111110010101010010 011101010101010 001100100111010 11111010110010 1101010110011010 010010100101000101 0010111001001101 010100101100111 011101001100 011010000 10100001010100 011001010110100100 10001010101001 111101110 110 101010101101011 10 111101010100111 0100011 1100100011010 0111011101010101 10 111110010101001 110010101001101001 11101001010101 1001110010100111 010111111010111 101110110101101 01001011000111100 1110010101110101 10111100110101010 101100101010110 010101111101001 01000101011111001 111110111110100 110111000111011 010111010110000100 10011010 1111011 11101010101101100 111011010110110 1101011101 1 110111100101100010 100111010111101001 01110110111010111 10001101101010011110 111011101111010 1011001011101 11000111110110101 001001010101010010 1010101011010 1101110101110101010 01011101101010101 0110 1111010 11101001101010 1011010110100 010101010111101010 11001010111011 1110110111001010 1001111010101111 01010110101101110000 1111010101101011 1101101011001110 110010100110011010 101010101011001 00100111111110010 101011100001111 10111001000100010 1 1011001001010101111 1010101010111100 010100100101100100 101 00101111011110 1010010100100100110 101111010101010 0101101010000101 1010001101010111010 011000010110011101 10110010 1101011101100110 11101011111101000 10011011101110 00110010001 10010 010101011101001010 10010001100101101 101010111010110100 100011010010000101 1010100101111001 011101111111100 110101101001 1110110110 1010010001110101 10100100101011 1 011001101100010 0110001 00110110001010001 011001101001011010 010010111111010000 10100101 1100100111000110101 110100110001001 01001 111010 1110111101010011 111011110010111 10111100111001011 110100100101011111 111111111001110111 1111111010010111 1111001111010100 101001010011000101100 1 111011011111 011011010101010 1111110100010 100111011110111 10100111101100 01010 01111111010100 111011101011010 110010100100010100 101011010011111 101010101010010 11101000101111 1001010100010110 1000010010 1001101 11010101010111000 0110011010010010 101010000101010 01000110110110 110010011010101010 101011110111100 101011101001101000 01010 1 1111111000111101 11010010010101010 0101010110010001 10101010101110 111111111100110011 110100101110111100 010001 110111111110 0100101010011100110 10010111001101001 10110100100010011 01101000100110010101100 10111010010101000011 1010100101 1010001 11101111001101 101011110100111 1 1011111010111011 111000110101101010 011011001010010101 100111010110101001 01011011001100101000 00100111001010 1010011101011101111 1110000010101000100 011010001010100010110 110110011101011001 110011101101110 1010101000101011010 01 11101100100011 0101101110101110 10111011100001001 1001100101010001010010 010110101010010001 10111101010110101 01111000110111100 0111010110011010101 11011101010110100 1101111111010011 110010011110101010 0111111101010101 101001110101111010 110001011 10101111010010110100 01101011110111 100101011101110100 110110001111110100 00101111110101010 01111011011001010 111111 11110 101111011010101 0111101101110100 111101100111101101 011101111001000111 1011110111011 01011010111011011 101101001110101 111010101001010001001 10011011100101101 1010110111000101 11111 11001101001 110100101100111110 001001001110011010 1101000010110101 01010101110101001 0010101000101111000 0101010111110011 101001001011010101 0110010010001011001 0110100111110101 11101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 57
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 248
  • Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, woods, i, her, she, to, it, that, of, in, with, as, from, sense are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The author used the same word i 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 the is repeated).

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