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  • Rhyme scheme: abccc ddXde defcg aaaca dcedbX cchdabe X fcg X haXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,6,7,1,3,1,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101010011 00101000010 111010110001 010010010100 110101111111 11101010101 110010101 0011110011 101010 01010001011101 10010001101 1001 00111011101 100101010001 10101011011 101010001000101 101001101101 0110101110101 0111001010101 0101111101001 111110 111111 011101110 11011101 11111 11000010111 111101 110111111 1011110101 01001110100101 1011001101 00101001110 00100001001101110 1111 101011 01011101 11011011 11011010111000 00110 10111010 111101010 11011010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word stuck is repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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