This is an analysis of the poem Feelings Of A Republican On The Fall Of Bonaparte that begins with:

I hated thee, fallen tyrant! I did groan
To think that a most unambitious slave, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXcXccdcdee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11011010101 0110110001 1111110101 0100111111 10111011101 0111011111 010010100100 1011111111 10110010111 1101110011 1111111001 1101010101 1111110101 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 633
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • 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; and is repeated.

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