This is an analysis of the poem Heine In Paris that begins with:

LATE: a cold smear of sunlight bathes the room;
The gilt lime of winter, a sun grown melancholy old, ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcbdededeeeeeeeeeffXXfefghghgihibibijjbifififfikikiekdidXdlibmbXbembfbfbmfhihihXiececeelX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 93,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011011101 01101001110101 100111110101 1001010101 01010101101 10110101101 110101 11110101101 10100101010011 100011111001110 111110010111 111101101001 11111001101101 110010111111001 11111110101 11010110001 101010111111101 1011110101 1111100111 1111001101 0101000101 101101011101 11110011101 11110100101 110100100101 110100111011 110100110101 1101001010101 11011000111 1010100111101 100101011101 1011001110011 100101111101 100100111001001 01101010101 1010101101111 11111110101 1101111001001 010011101101 01011101101 01010101001 101010101011 1110101 11011101011 11010100101 1101110111 11010111001 11111011111111 111100101101 11011011 10110011111 1001010111 01011101111 01110010111 01111101011 0111010011010 111011 110111011001 110111010101 1011110101011 11010010111010 11110110111 010111111110 111101 1011110101 101101011001 101101101001 1001011011001 1001001101101 100010110010001 01100001 11011101011 1001010101011 11010101101 01011101100 11110101011 010110101101 0111111 11110100101 00110101010101 1111110101 101100101101 0101011101 010100100100 0101011 110111111101 11001111001 100111100101 1101100101 110011100101 10011110101 10011010010010 1111010101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4771
  • Average number of words per stanza: 830
  • Amount of lines: 93
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, on, those, and, uncle, solomon's, all, or, in, he'd, but, that, to, not, his, own are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, one, the, not are repeated.

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