This is an analysis of the poem The Strayed Reveller that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: A BCDDEFghijkXlgeheblmcX X b A nccocpdqiqldofdfgjrXckXngfcgm X ldefbenfld A ddpgjps X iegoe e jbnXgdcojteigcopXsmne X ceh A adhoblnniheebed e ebnooeegfeecenfp A keehdXokjboXeEeeteegoDolXcbhhnehdXdfooojeneefdiedXnkdddlclqiXeacknkegehEsgpgeeXgidpe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,22,1,1,1,29,1,10,1,7,1,5,1,21,1,3,1,15,1,16,1,168,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01 1010 1110 101101 01010 0101 1111 11010 111111 11010101 1111 1111010 01110100 1111 00110 1111011 100111 01011 11110 01111 110101 11110 1111 1 11110 01 10111 10111 0111010 110101 11010 1111111 11011 1010011 1111011 111111111 1101 11101 011010 0011010 1011 1101 111100 011011 1011011 1111010 11010 1010 10011010 01110 01010 101001 1110 111110 10101101 1 1011101 1100111 1100111 10100110 011010 1011 111111 011111 1111111 1101 01 1101 101101 1111 11010 11110 1111 01011 1 11011 11010 110010 111011 11011 010 10110 111110 10010111 01101100 1010 11101001 01101 1111010 011001 0010101 011011011 1101 1010100 001101 011101 10111101 1111000 110111 1101101 111011 01110 1 111 111110010 111 01 111111 01110001 11111 01110 1110 11111 01010 0111010 0111 111111 01110 01001011101 11110 01010 101 010 11010 11110 1101 0101110 10101011 111101 11010 111010 01110 00101101 01110 0111 11010 1111 10110111 1101101 01 01110 11111 1101 11010 0111 11100 10101 10110 1001 01110 01101 01010 0101 11011 00101 010001 1110101 011101 010111 11010 0101 110100 10101 01110 0101110 0110110101 101100 11110 101011 101101 10111 01010 110100 10111000 01111 1100111101 10111 11010101 0101011111 0101010101 11101010 10001 11010111110 0101110 1010101 010111 10011111 100101 1011 111011100 0101 11010 101110 1100101 0111 11010101 01010101 0101 11010101 011101 1101110110 010010011 110111 01110101 011100 01011100 1011010 111101 0101110 001010 01011 11010 100011 1010110 1001 11110 01010 11010 01110 0111 11111 1111 1111 100101 11010 1001 11111 01010 01010 0111 11010 10110 01010 11011 110111 1101001 1111010011 110101 001101101 11011111 1101010011 100101 101101 010111 001111 110100 1010111 111111 00010111 1101000111 0100111 1001011011 11111111 1111001 11010 1010111 1101011101 101101 0101010111 0111011101 0011001101 10011101 111101 101101 11010 110111 11110100101 1010111 1101001 0101 100011 01100 1100011 00101010 0111 1011101 110101 1011 01010 11111 11010 101011 1010010 11111 0110111 010111 0101010 1011010 101011 1010010 0010001 01010 11111001 110010 10110 101 1101101010 1111010 11100 1111 1111110011 0101 1010 1110 101101 01010 0101 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 364
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 318
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, thee, and, his, of, they, ye are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, more, his, of, sometimes, ah are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ulysses is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases thou, drive connect the lines.

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