This is an analysis of the poem A Belated Call that begins with:

Him whom I could not then love much
Why do I now remember thus at this late...

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabcdec afgdXdaXabeaddhbeaahfifideb dbjcgdXkfalaklmdXnolpadaddafbbmoaXcfbafoidekqihrqfcfXlsobkfehcrnXihhahoXnefbbhajhndaaciadaXXbaffdoXnXiojhkajkXhdhcbabohqtnpifjacojioceatoodelseocabhaXfhXo
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,27,154,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111 11110101101 10010 011010100111 10111011 101010101 1011101101 111101 1111001 010011110 0101 10100101 101011001 1101 01010010010 0011 110101010 11010001 1111101 1100101010 11101001 01010111 11010 11001110101 01110101001 010111101 1101010 001000110101 011111111 01111100 00100101111 1101 1101111 1101010 110111101 1110 10100010 01001101 11011010 10100 011110100 0100100110 101 1111011 100101111 1000101 111 11110 1110111 1110110 111101 101010100100 101 0101100101 00101 01010010010 101001000 10010 110001010 101001 1111111 111 10111110 010101010 11011110 1011 101011 01010010 11111 111 1101010100 00010100 0100111001 1100010 0111010101001 01010101 001011 1010101010 01101 101101101 0111101 111011101 11011 1110101101 111010 0111111011 0010010100 111001111 10010 011110101 100001110 0111011110 111100 110010111001 11100110 1111110 110111 011101100 10111000 11111101 1010110101 11001111101 01001010010 10101001 0010110100110 101001010 001001010 10101011001 11101111 111110 1101100010 11111101001 010101011 11111111 011101101 10011110100 1000101010 001001011 010101010 111110111 1101101101 1001011111 1001101 101111011 0101010100 1111101100 00111110 010101101 0100101101 1111100 10101011 10011010010 110111 111000010 10100 110111 0110100010 0111101101 111101111 0101110 10100 11010011001 1111 00101001010 10101001 101101001 1111111 0110 001011010 001100110 11111110 011111111 0110000100110 0101 011001101 01010010 01011 101101111 0010100101 11101111 11011 100101111 1101 110011101111 111101 00011111 111111 11010101001 111111101 1010111101111 110101 11101011 01111101 10111 1101110110 110110110 010110101 01111 0110010101 10010 111110 1010101101 01011101 0010110 111111010 010101 0100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1513
  • Average number of words per stanza: 286
  • Amount of lines: 187
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; i, of, my, to, that, his, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, is are repeated.

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