This is an analysis of the poem How To Not Settle It that begins with:

I LIKE, at times, to hear the steeples' chimes
With sober thoughts impressively that mingle;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb bXcd aXed efgX ahch ijfj Xhkh lXkm ngcg oXel edad iblb edad Xhlh mXiX eaba djkj idcd kimi aaga gbab Xaca baia iana cedX cdid mjij kXia XjoX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111010101 01010100110 1011110111 01010001110 1111010101 01010001100 1011010111 10010110100 0001011101 101010101010 0101110100 10010011110 1111110101 11011111010 1101110101 10111111000 1111110101 11010101010 11011110111 01111000110 1011010101 110101010010 1111111101 10011101010 01010100101 11111001110 1101111101 01111101110 1111110111 11110101010 11111100101 11010110110 0111111111 01110111010 1111111101 01010101010 1111110101 01010100010 1101010101 01110011011 1101101101 01011101011 0101010101 110110101010 1001110101 11111101010 1111111101 10010101010 01111101001 11010101110 11000011001 11010111110 1111010111 111111001110 1101010101 11110000110 1101110101 11111111010 1010010101 01110101010 1011001001 11010111010 1101011111 01001101010 1101010101 11110111110 11001010101 11011111010 10111100101 110010011010 10111100101 11010001010 11111101001 01010001110 11011010100 111000101010 11011101001 110111001010 1101110101 01010101010 1011110101 11010101010 11011101001 010011010110 10111110101 11010101010 1111111111 10100101110 1111111101 11010101110 1101111101 110001101110 1011110101 11110101010 1111110101 11011111010 1111111101 11010101010 1101010001 11011111000 0111111101 01010001010 0101010111 01110111010 0111010111 01011110010 1011110111 110110101010 1111111101 010111011100 1101110001 11110111010 01111111001 110000101110 1111010101 11111110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 29
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 116
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of, as, and, i, ' are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, if are repeated.

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

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