This is an analysis of the poem With Words To Express, Define Or Explain that begins with:

Smothered under thick layers of lies!
Suppressed by deceptions, ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabacaadeab XbdadXfddab dfbbaebddg XXXgc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,10,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011001 011010 110101 0010101 11100100010101010 01110101 1111001010 01001000101 11011111 11111110 1011100011100 1101 0101011 1110101 0010100101 10 1001001010000 01000100 11001001 10111110 01001010 10110101 001010 10110101001000 1101101000111 11010111101001 001010101010100100 1010001001 1001101010001101 110110100100 00110001000100100 1011010011010101 101001011111 1101010101 010 110010101001 0100101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 373
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • 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; of, they, or, from, to are repeated.

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