This is an analysis of the poem Arisen At Last that begins with:

I SAID I stood upon thy grave,
My Mother State, when last the moon... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaabccdeedeefXgXXXfhhaaaXdfaggbggXgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110111 11011101 01010101 110010111 11100001 01001111 01110101 111101101 111100001 11110101 11011101 0101101 1101111 101101001 01110001 10010101 11110100 01100111 11011101 01111101 01001101 11001111 11010101 111010001 11110101 11010101 01110101 01000101 01010101 01000101 11011100 10011101 11110111 11111111 11111101 01010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1262
  • Average number of words per stanza: 226
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; of, and, in are repeated.

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