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PRELUDE
ALONG the roadside, like the flowers of gold... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabaccadecfgahfafihXcjkckcicclkXcb klmfnbkopqrakiXjopqcjcakccXbgiXljddlogkgkcaabXcbcccbcXekpkocXcjcp afboeggahkkcrfmXckkkdbkpshnc kalcblgpabjltckqfdokaipoXccXnk clbliqiq lqkq Xlal tXcj caaa bjgX clal nXcc kpfp skak kcjc cqXq sljl kqkq bara ajcj Xcoc cjcj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,65,28,30,8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11 01011101001 1101011101 1001110101 101100010010 1100011011 0101110101 10100011001 1011011101 0101011101 0100010101 1011000101 0101110101 1100010101 10110101001 1001011101 0111100101 0101110101 010101011001 1111011100 1100110101 0001010001 1100111101 0111110101 1101000111 0010010100 1111111111 1011111100 1111010101 0111011101 1101111101 01010011101 1101000101 1101110111 1111010101 10111101110 1111010011 1101010011 0111010011 1111011101 11000101111 1101010101 0100010100 1011110000 1101110111 1101010101 1100010111 1101010111 1111010100 0101111100 0101110111 0101010100 11011111110 11001111101 11111010001 0011110001 1101010111 10001010111 01010011001 01010010011 1001010100 0101010101 1111110011 10001011001 01110101000 1001000101 10010110101 01110100101 01001101101 100010111010 0111010101 10110011010 110010101101 0101010111 01010100111 01001010100 1011000101 1001010101 10011000101 10011010100 1111110001 1001100101 1111010101 01000100001 11010000110 110010101111 1011010011 110100110011 0111000101 101101001010 01010011110 1001010110 1101010101 10111101101 1111111100 0101010101 0111010100 11010011010 1101010100 1110011001 1101011111 11110001101 0101110101 01001010101 0100010011 1101010001 1001110101 0101010101 11100010111 0011011111 0011001101 10111111011 0101011101 0101010111 1111101000 0101011000 1101010011 1111010011 11011101001 1100010111 00110100101 01010010101 1101000100 1001100001 1101110111 1101010101 11000010001 1101110001 1101110101 10110111011 1011010101 1111010001 11100110111 1111010111 1101010100 1101011101 0101111101 0100010100 10110011111 1101010111 0111011100 0111010101 01011001010 0101101101 1101001101 11010100101 0111010001 00010010001 1101010101 0100101100 00110010111 01110101010 10010010111 1100110111 0001010110 0111000101 01010001110 11011101 1101010 11010101 1101010 11010111 0101010 11010101 0100010 11010111 0100010 11011001 0111010 0101110 1101110 11011101 0110010 11010111 0111010 11110101 1111110 01010101 0101010 11010101 1111110 01100101 1001010 111100101 0101010 11011101 0111010 11110111 1101010 111100101 01010010 11110111 1111110 11010101 1101010 01011101 0111010 11111111 0101010 11111101 0101010 10011101 0101010 01110101 0101010 11111111 1101010 10010101 1101010 11011101 0101110 011100101 0111010 11010101 0101010 10111101 0011110 01010101 1101110 01010101 0101010 11010111 1111110 010100010 1101110 11010101 1101010 010100111 0110010 11011101 0101010 11110101 11100010 01110001 1111010 11110111 11000010 01010101 0100010 01010111 1001010 11010111 1101110 01010101 0101010 11111101 0101010 01010100 0101010 01010101 1111010 01010001 0101110 11010111 0101010 11000101 01001010 11010101 11010010 01111101 1101010 01010101 10111010 01010001 1011010 11111111 1101010 11111101 0101010 01111111 0101110 01010101 0101010 01110101 1111110 11110101 1101010 111100001 0110010 101001101 1111010 11010111 1101011 11010111 0101111 01000101 0101010 01010101 0101110 10011101 1101110 11010100 11010010 11110001 0101110 11011101 1101010 01111111 1111010 01011111 0111010 11110101 1101110 110101001 1101010 11011001 1101110 101111111 0111110 11011101 1111010 11111101 0101100 01010101 1101110 11011111 0101010 11111111 1101010 11100101 1111010 11101101 1101010 01010101 0101010 01101101 0111011 11011001 1111111 11110111 1101011 11111101 1101011 11010101 1101110 11110011 11001010 11110111 0111010 11110011 0101010 11100101 1101110 10111111 0101010 11111101 1111110 11110101 0101010 11111101 1111010 01111101 0101110 01010101 0111010 11011100 0101010 11010101 0101010 111100110 1101010 1001010111 0101010 11110100 1101010 111100101 1111010 11010101 0101010 01010001 0101010 01010001 0011010 110100110 1001010 01000111 1100110 11010101 0101010 11110101 0101010 01011111 0101110 11000101 0101010 01011101 0101010 110101010 1101010 010000101 0101010 010010101 1101110 01010111 0111010 01011101 1101010 11011101 0100010 11001001 1101110 10010101 0101010 11010001 0111010 01010111 0100010 10110100 0111010 11010001 1100100 01011111 0101010 11010101 0101010 11110001 0101110 10111101 0111010 10110101 1011010 11010101 0101010 11010001 1101110 11010101 1101110 01010111 0101010 11011101 0101011 01010111 1101111 01010001 0101110 01010011 0101100 010100111 1101010 11110101 1101010 11010100 1101010 01010101 0101010 11010100 1111010 01010101 0101010 11010101 0101010 11111001 1101010 10010101 0111010 11011101 0101010 11110111 0111010 11010101 0101010 1101001001 0100110 11011101 0100010 110101001 1101110 11010101 1101110 11010101 1100100 11110111 1101010 11110111 0111010 111001001 0101110 011100111 0101111 01110111 1101011 10010101 1111010 01100101 1101010 01110101 1101010 11010101 0101110 11010111 10111010 01011101 0101110 01111101 0111010 11011101 0101010 01010101 0101010 11011101 0101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 89
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 502
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, to, i, of, by, her, your, you, me, as, our, s are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, he, i, a, our, to are repeated.

    The author used the same words we, you, and, in, he, how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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