This is an analysis of the poem Canto I Argument that begins with:

Canto I
ARGUMENT...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a b XXXXccXdeeXeXXffXXffegaahhdd XXbbeeiiffjjhhbbaXbbkkddddffddXfhhfffXfXffffllhhllfXaafXffggamiiffddffggXXXXhXaaeeiXggiiddbbbbhhddnnkkddiibbXlkkooiiffooffcXlXbblXfXkkiXgpiiXXhhaaqqXbXXXdggooffXXaaiihhffiihhoooggbbkkaarrffiibXaaXXiibbllffffmmddmmssegttggX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,28,349,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 101 100 01001101 01011101 11011101 11111101 111110011 010101011 1101011 01011101 11100101 11011101 1110110 01110101 01010011 11011101 111101010 110100110 1011010010 010110110 11110100 01010101 01010111 10100010 11011101 11011111 11010111 10111111 11011101 10010101 0101111101 11111010011 1111110101 101010101 1111010001 1010101101 10100101101 10001001101 1010010101 0101000101 11011101001 111011111 10010100010 11010100010 0111111111 01011110011 0101010101 011110110 0111110111 1101000101 1111111010 01011111110 01010011001 11011011101 0101000101 1101011111 11010101101 11001011101 1001110111 0101010100 1111110100 01110011111 10110101111 0101110111 11111101010 11110111010 1101010101 11110010010 1001011101 0101100100 1101010101 0100011001 10010101010 10010001010 01001001101 1101011001 1001010101 00110111001 10010101010 10011101100 10110001110 010101100100 0101110101 1001010111 1101010101 1001011100 10110101010 00110100110 11011110010 110111110 1111111101 1101010100 1101010101 1001010001 101111000110 11010101010 1111000110 0101110101 01001000111 0101110101 111100111010 111010111010 101011001000 101000101000 110010001000 110010011000 111110110010 10101110100 111110101011 1110100111101 11111011101 10010110101 1101100101 0111010111 010101101010 011100101010 0101010001 0101010101 1001011101 1011010101 0101011101 10010010101 0101010101 0111110101 1101100101 1101110101 0101110101 0101000101 01110001111 1111111101 11010100101 1101010101 0101010101 0101110101 0101100101 0101011110 1011011111 1011011001 10110101100 110100110010 01010010101 110111010 11010001011 01010111101 11111011101 11001011101 111110011010 111011111110 11101010101 11011110101 1111011101 11011011111 11001011011 10111111100 11100100101 0001010100 01100010001 1001110101 1111011111 10110110111 011010101 11100010100 11010001110 11110001010 01010011010 101111101100 1101000100 0101100101 1101001101 1101010111 111110011110 111010100110 11111011101 11101011111 11111011001 11101100001 11111011101 110011101101 11001111001 11101011101 110001001101 10101111001 0101010110 1101010100 100110101010 11111101010 11010101011 11110111011 10011101110 101010011010 10010111100 01101011010 01101010111 0111111111 11110101010 01111101010 1111110101 0100001101 1111011001 1011110101 101101011110 01010101010 100110011010 01010100010 10110101010 110111000011 01110101011 1101001110 01010101010 00010010101 1001010100 11110011111 1011010101 0101011001 0101010101 0101010101 1001001001 111100000101 110110001101 11101001111 1110110101 11111011101 10101101000 111110101011 11001111101 101011111000 1110110001100 111011101110 111100100110 11111111111 11100011101 101001111110 111001111010 11101110101 10101111101 1111111101 1001011101 01010111010 11010001010 1101001100010 11011101010 11010101010 11101101010 1111001111 1001010101 1100010001 110010100010 1101001101 1111010101 110111010010 01110001010 11010111010 11010100010 1101011101 11111100100 11001010111 10101001100 110010100001 10011110101 11111010101 111010101001 111111110101 110001110101 111000011101 11101010101 101001101001 10101011101 111010011101 10011010001 111011111110 111010100010 110110011101 11111110111 10100011001 11111110101 101010111010 111110101010 11101110101 11101110101 11100010111 111101011101 11001110101 111001111111 111011111010 111011011010 11111110101 10101110101 11110110011 101000111010 11101000101 111010010101 1101101011000 111010111110 11101010100 10101000100 101000101010 101100001010 10100110101 1010010010011 101110000011 10101010010 11101110001 1011101001110 111010101001 11101010101 110010100011 101011010011 11111100111 11111001101 10101111101 11011010101 11100011101 11101110101 100100101001 11111011101 01010100100 1101100100 1010111111 1101011101 1101010111 0111110001 0001010101 1111010101 0101100111 0101010011 0111010111 0101010101 11111111010 110110001010 1101110101 0101111001 1001010101 1101011101 11011101010 11010111110 11010111010 10010101010 0101110101 1101111101 110100001110 11010110010 0111010101 1111101111 1111110101 1101010101 1111110110 1111010001 1101110101 01010101011 10111110101 0101000111 01101101010 11010111110 01011101110 11000110010 11010101010 011101111010 0101010101 1011100101 1101111101 1111100101 11111101110 1111011010 11010010010 01010101110 1011010111 1101111111 1001011101 0011001101 11011110001 100111101 1111011101 0101000101 1110100101 0101001101 1001011100 1011001101 0101010101 100101101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4379
  • Average number of words per stanza: 722
  • Amount of lines: 379
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, in, and, him, to, i, my, his, of, thy, how are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, book, him, it, fellow are repeated).

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