This is an analysis of the poem The Doer Of Good that begins with:

It was night-time and He was alone.
And He saw afar-off the walls of a round city and went towards the... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bc bdbe Xaf Xbda XX gfX h geXbh dX iiX diX dX c bX dX gfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,4,3,4,2,3,1,5,2,3,3,2,1,2,2,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011111101 111011010011011010 10 1111111010100100 1011010001010101 1010111110111000 1101001 11100111010111100 1001001001010101 1011010010111001 1111110101010101 01011011010111010 101101111101101 110101 1110111111010110 1111111 1011111100011110 111110101111111 1110 111100111010001 1100101111111100 10111010110101 10101001111010110 101001011011011010 100110101 111010110100111 1011111101010110 1011111100011111 1111111111111 1 11110110101000101 1001111010101101 01 101011110001111 1110111110100101 11110010 1111110010111010 110111110 111011110110011 10111110 1011111100011110 11111111100111 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, he, city, of, hall, him, face, young, man are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word and 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 i is repeated).

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

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