This is an analysis of the poem Epipsychidion: Passages Of The Poem, Or Connected Therewith that begins with:

Here, my dear friend, is a new book for you;
I have already dedicated two... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbccddddddaaa eeffffddfX gghheiffjjg eeeeXdc kllmmllddbbccgXmm kkmmlleikkllmmcceeddaaggbbffeef aacc jjffffeinnmb moollddXmh ba aajlccggoommffddggXood ccmmjjmm kkhm ieggaaljeiccppjm immmm mmoommcc Xccee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,10,11,7,17,31,4,12,10,2,22,8,4,16,5,8,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111001111 1101010001 0101111111 1110011111 1100011111 1101010111 1100111101 1001010101 1101111101 01010011001 0101010101 1111010111 1100110101 1011100111 01111100101 0101010101 11101000111 1001010101 11010100111 0011011111 0100011111 1001110111 1001010101 1101011101 1011101101 01010001000 0101101111 1101010100 0101000101 11010101001 1101110100 0111001100 1101010101 1101010101 01110101110 100111001110 0100010011 1111010101 0011011101 1101111110 1011110101 11011101000 0111010101 0110010 1101110101 0111101101 1001010111 10001010 11111111010 1001001111 1010010001 0111111101 0100111001 101000101010 10110101010 1100010111 1101100101 11110100110 11111101010 010110101 1100010101 0001110011 0101010101 1110110110010 011110100010 01011111101 1011000111 1111001101 1111110100 1001110001 1001010101 1100111101 11001101 11110101001 0101110101 011100101 0101010001 0111011111 10111010110 1111111111 0111111111 11101111101 1111001111 1110111101 1101011111 1101100101 1100111101 0101100111 0101110100 0111111101 1101010101 10110101 00010010111 1101110101 0111010111 01010011101 010101000010 10011101110 1011110101 0111110100 1110111101 110001100 0100010111 01010100100 1100111111 1101011111 0101000101 11011100 11 11010111111 100100100001 0111010101 1100110001 1111111101 1111000101 01110101110 10111101100 1011010101 1100100111 011 1011110001 0111110111 1111010110 1110111111 11010100110 110110110110 1111011111 10101010101 1100010001 1101101111 11110111010 11111111110 1101101001 1001000100 10010010101 1101010101 0101010101 110101110010 001101 1001110101 1101010101 0101 1101111101 1101011101 1101010101 0101011101 01010101010 1001111110 1001100101 0101010101 01011101001 0111101 0001010001 10110 1011101100 01110101001 1001010101 0100110101 11010101 0101010101 11101 1111110110 1101010100 1001010100 00111111010 111100010010 1100011001 0101000101 0111111010 01010 0010110100 1111100101 1101010111 1111010101 0101010101 01111101010 10111101010 1011110101 1011010001 1101111101 0101000101 1111110101 1111110101 1101010101 0101010111 1101101111 0111000111
  • Amount of stanzas: 29
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 215
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, you, if, of, i, which, our, us, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, and, , the, a are repeated.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.

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