This is an analysis of the poem Pygmalion And The Statue that begins with:

PYGMALION loathing their lascivious Life,
Abhorred all Womankind, but most a Wife: ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffgghhiiddiiiiXXggdXbbbbhhffjjkkgglliiiibbbbiimmbbggiibbbddnnXffeeffiiiijjeegggffddffbbggbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 101,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11010101001 0111001101 1101011101 1101001001 1101000101 0101010101 11010010111 1101100101 0101100101 1101011101 1001010101 01110101010 0101000111 1111010110 1111111111 0100110101 1101110101 0101000101 1111011101 1101110101 0111111101 1111110101 10001111101 1101010101 1101010101 1011010110 1101011101 01010010111 1101111101 01010101010 1101011101 0111011101 0101111101 110111010101 0101110101 11010100101 1100010111 0101010001 110111001011 110100101001 1101010101 1101010101 110101011001 010101010101 1100010101 1001110101 0101010111 110101010101 1101011101 101101101001 1001110101 0100100101 0101011101 0100010001 1110010101 0101010101 0101010101 01010110101 0101011101 1001010101 11010010101 11010101001 0101011101 01110100101 1011111111 1101111101 11010011001 0101001101 11111100001 11010100010 11010101010 0101000101 1100010101 1101101111 1100110101 1111110101 1101011101 1101101101 1101010001 0101010101 1101010101 111111010101 0101111001 11111100101 1101110101 0101011111 1101110101 1101000101 1001110101 011000010111 0011010011 1101111101 1101000101 100100101001 111101110001 0100110111 1101110001 11011110101 0111010111 1001110111 0101000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4593
  • Average number of words per stanza: 807
  • Amount of lines: 101
  • 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; to, he, and, her, at are repeated.

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

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