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  • Rhyme scheme: ab cded cdfd cgXg hcgc ciii jkXk elml cdfd cgeg XeXe egeX jkek dnen HgXg HdXd ekgk gece goXo XkkX dmeX dXiX XaXa ceee ikXk pdeX ekjk dbjb XkXk XX neaneanX lkalkalX maamXamX miamiamX klaklakX Xm llmmooeeeeooggg llggooXiXeeeiikkkkeeeeaapeelloo
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,8,8,8,8,8,2,15,31,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 010 10011010 10010101 10101011 1111101 00101010 1011101 00101011 1010101 111010100 1010101 0010010100 1010101 00101010 11101001 10101010 1010101 11101010 1011111 11101010 1010101 10111110 1010101 100101010 1010101 11101010 1011101 10111011 10100001 00101010 1011101 00101011 1010011 00101010 1010101 1010101 1010101 10101100 1011101 1111110101 1010101 11101010 1010001 110111010 0011111 11100110 0011111 10101111 1011101 10101010 1010101 10101010 1011101 00101010 1110101 10101010 1010101 00101010 1110101 1110110100 1011101 10011010 1011101 10101010 1010101 11101010 0110101 11110110 1010101 11101010 1110001 10101010 10010001 101101010 10101011 11110010 1010110 100101010 100101001 11001001110 100110010 00101010 11110111 11111010 1010101 100111110 1010101 10101010 1010111 11101010 1010111 00011011 1010101 10101010 1110101 10101010 1010101 10110110 0110101 11100010 1111100 11111010 1011111 10101010 0010101 10111110 1100101 10101110 1010001 10101110 1110111 10101010 1111011 1 01 010100101 00110111 011101 01110111 11110101 10111 11000101 10101 11101101 10010111 10101 01111101 01011111 11111 11111101 10101 11110101 01110111 11101 10111101 11010100 10101 11000101 10101 11110111 00110101 10101 11110101 11011111 10101 11011111 10101 11011101 01000101 10101 11010101 1101001001 11101 01011101 00101 1 01 1111011101 0111101101 1111110101 100111101 0011010001 11011011101 1111110101 00101011101 1101010101 1101011011 0101001111 1111011101 1111000101 0101001101 1001000101 1111011101 1011100111 1011010101 1001011101 10100011101 0011010001 1101010111 01010101001 1100110110 1111011101 10110010111 1101111101 1101101101 11011100101 11001101010 01010001010 1100110111 1100011101 1011011101 1001011100 0110110101 1011010101 1101101101 01001010111 1101000100 000100101011 01000100100 1001000111 0100010101 1101010101 01000010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 38
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 206
  • 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; his, ', and, your, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words on, one, the, and are repeated.

    The author used the same words in, slow, on, so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same words ', brou at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase stands connects the lines.

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