This is an analysis of the poem Of Hell And The Estate Of Those Who Perish that begins with:

hus, having show'd you what I see
Of heaven, I now will tell... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdXd efef ghgh dede eeXc ifif bjbj kfkf lmlm gkgk gege ihih ebeb gele lblb hXhg afdf ghgh fcfc hghg fmfh gcgc mnmn ekek caca aaaa ogog cccc dldl fpfp gagd ekek lblb cgcg hchc dfdf fgfg bebe npgp hbhb aaaa oqoq aqaq eqer kfkf pbgb glgl hqhr dgdg kakd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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 trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011111 0101101 11010110 01101 11111111 110100 110111100 110100 01010101 110001 01110101 010101 10011101 110101 11011101 011111 10010100 00111 10010100 011001 10010011 010111 11110100 110101 01010101 010101 10001001 110001 11110111 111101 01010101 010101 01010101 01001 11011111 010001 10010101 1101001 1001101 110101 01010101 010101 10010111 011101 01010101 010001 11101101 110101 01010011 11101 01110101 110110 11010111 010101 10100101 010101 01010101 001101 11010111 010001 11010111 110101 01011101 110101 01010101 110110 11110111 101101 01010100 110101 11010100 011100 1110011 010101 01011111 100111 11111101 110011 01111111 110111 11010011 010101 11011110 101101 11110110 111111 01011101 100110 10011101 111001 01010111 010111 11100111 111111 11111101 110011 100100101 010101 11010101 011101 11000111 011001 01011101 110101 11110111 010101 10011101 100010 11000101 010101 010010111 001111 01110101 110011 01010101 111011 11001100 11011 00010100 110101 110111001 010011 11000111 010101 11010101 011111 01010111 011100 01110000 010111 01011101 100101 10111111 110111 01111101 1100111 11011111 111101 01110101 010011 01010111 110101 01011111 100101 01011100 110101 11100100 110101 11111110 110101 11001101 100101 11010101 011101 01011100 010101 11000101 110111 11011111 110101 11010101 110111 11000101 110111 01111101 100100 01100111 110101 01111001 110101 11110101 111101 11001111 110001 11010111 000101 10010101 110001 11010001 1101010 11011101 110111 11110101 011101 11111111 111101 11011101 111101 111101111 111101 01110111 111111 11011101 1110010 11010011 1101110 10010100 111101 11111100 110111 11111111 110111 11011101 001100 01101101 111101 01010011 001101 01000101 100110 01011111 011111 01010111 110101 010011101 111101 11011101 110101 11010101 110111 11011101 110100 11010101 110101 1001110 110101 11010101 100101 01110111 111111 11011101 111011 11010101 110111 01101101 111101 11001100 110101 11010001 110011 11010101 110101 11010101 100101 01111111 110101 01010111 010101 11111111 110110 110011 111101 11111101 110101 11111011 110111 11110111 110101 11011111 010101 01010100 1100101 11011101 110101 11010111 100101 11111101 111111 11010110 110111 01011011 111111 11011011 011100 11111011 011001 11010111 110101 11010011 101101 10110111 110101 10110101 110101 11010111 110101 11011101 110111 11010101 111111 10111111 111101 11111101 111101 11101011 110001 11011101 110101 01110101 111101 11111111 111111 10111101 110001 11010101 111110 010111100 111101 11110101 010101 10111011 101101 11010100 011111 11101111 111111 01010111 010011 11110111 011101 11010100 011101 11010101 011111 11011101 010111 01111111 111101 101101001 110011 01011101 100011 11111011 111101 110100111 011111 01111001 1101010 01111101 0111110 10010001 111011 10011101 100100 01101101 011101 11001101 0101001 11110111 111111 11011101 100101 110100010 100101 11000101 110111 11010101 011111 11010101 110101 11010001 011101 110111011 110100 11010111 111101 110101001 110101 11110011 111111 11011111 101101 11011101 111111 11010011 110101 11110100 011111 11011111 011101 10110101 111011 11010111 010101 11111101 000111 11010010 110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 97
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 388
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; in, of, and, have, you, they, alas, them, to, live, their, i, what, had, or are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words so, no, a, and, i, but, thus, this, they, these, what, to, or are repeated.

    The author used the same words god, this, i, for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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