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  • Rhyme scheme: ab cdc ded ede dad afa fgf geg eee ehe hih jai aka kel ele lal aca clc ljk jbj bdb dld lil iji jlj lml mem ene ncn cec ehe hch coc Xdo ded eje jaX apa bmb mam aea eeee X b eae ala lXl bkb kqX qgq glg lhl hrh rar aca cgX gek X lal aea eje jcj cgc ggg gjg j
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,1,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,4,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,2,3,2,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,1,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010 11 11011101110 1111110101 11010101010 11011100101 1101110101 1001010101 1101011101 1101110101 1001110101 1001010101 11011100101 1101010101 1101011101 1101010001 1110000101 1111010111 1110110101 01010111101 11011100101 11010100111 0001010101 1101010101 1100010101 11010010101 0101111101 11110010101 1101110001 1011110101 11010101010 0101010101 0111010101 0111010111 01011001010 10001001101 110010111001 0101110101 1101010111 0101110111 1011010101 11010010101 0111110111 0101011001 1011110101 1111111111 1101110001 10011011101 1001011111 10011111101 0111110101 0111111011 1101110101 1101110101 1111010001 1001110101 0110110111 1101010101 1101110101 1111011101 11011100001 1001011101 1101110011 1001010101 1101010101 1111000101 110111011010 1101100101 010011111010 1101111101 111101010010 10101011101 0101010101 10110010101 1100010101 1111110001 1101110101 0101111111 1110110111 0100111001 1110010111 1101000101 1101011101 010010011 01001010111 1101110101 0101010101 1111111101 1111110001 0101111101 10011101011 1111111001 11000110001 1011110101 11011101001 0101010101 1110111101 1111110100 11011101001 1101011001 10110100101 1101011111 1101110101 1100010111 11111001011 0011100101 1001010011 1101011101 1100011011 10110101100 1111000101 10011110100 0111010101 1101010101 1111000101 0101100110 0101011011 1011000101 1111111111 11111101011 0101010111 1111011101 01010011111 1101010101 11101101001 110101100101 11 101 110011101 1111010101 11110011111 00111111001 1101000101 1101110001 1101011111 100101011 11010011111 0011000101 1100110101 10011001111 0101011101 01011101010 11011101000 11100101010 1101011101 11110101010 010010111101 1101010100 110101011 11110100001 0101111001 1101011101 1101010101 00110100101 1111110101 1101100101 11011100101 1101010101 1111010101 1101011001 11011100001 00110110101 1011010101 1111011000 1100011110 1101110011 01010 101 1110011111 110110010101 1101111101 1101111101 1101100111 0101110111 0100110001 0101010101 1101010111 1111011101 0101010101 101100001 0111110101 0101110101 0101010101 11110101001 1101111100 11001010101 1001000101 11010100101 1001110001 1101011101 10101110101 0100101001 100101101 111101101 1001010101 1101011111 1101010001 1101011011 1101011111 11110111010 11101011000 10010111010 00110001010 110101001010 11110101010 11010101010 100111110010 11010101110 0111010100 111110001010 1011001101 1101111111 1101110101 1100111101 10011100101 01000100101 0101001111 11011101001 1011110111 1001011101 1010101010 1001110111 1001110101 1111110101 10111100001 10011010101 101111110101 1111111101 1101010111 1011100101 1111111100 1101010001 110011001 01111000011 101 1101111101 10010001110 1111110111 01010111010 11011101010 01011101000 110011111000 0101110101 11010111110 11 101 1101010110 010101101 10001011101 1101010111 0111010101 1101011111 0101110001 01110010101 11110111101 0100110111 1111100101 11001110101 1101001111 01010101110 011010101 110010111010 0101010101 10111101100 10011100111 1111011101 1101010011 101 1101011100 101111010010 1011010101 01010101110 0101010101 1101011101 11001010101 1001000101 1101010101 1101011111 101101 1101011111 0011001110 11001100111 0110111101 101111 101 1101110001 11010111101 1011010101 11110110001 1011110101 11010011101 10001101011 1100110101 0110110101 0101010111 10111111010 01010011111 0011101000010 1001010111 11001111100 1101110101 01101100101 01110111101 0101110101 001101101 1001010111 01010111001 0011010001 1000 010100 1101011111 1011010101 11001010100 100011010001 01111111110 0101001100 0111111100 0101100111 1 01010 011101101 1011110101 101100101 1101010111 0100111001 1001010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 115
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 329
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; for, he, of, and, his, with, in are repeated.

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

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

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