This is an analysis of the poem The Mask Of Anarchy that begins with:

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As I lay asleep in Italy... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaaX XaXcc Xddeee Xffgg aeecc addba Xhhii Xhhjj XffXX jddhh ahhhh Xaaff Xaaff Xffab Xcckk XffhX XhhhX XhheX Xffff Xiill Xmndd Xhhmm Xaaii XhhaX Xddab Xiigg Xddaa Xggff Xaaee Xddmm Xffgg Xhhff Xoohhh XXnji XooeX XhXXh Xbbnn XNNEEe Xggff Xaagg Xhhdd Xpppp
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,6,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,6,5,5,5,5,6,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,6,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,6,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,6,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,6,5,5,5,5,5,5,4,5,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 111010100 110101001 101100111 010010010 1 1110101 11011100 1011111 1011101 1 1011111 0010001 11111111 11010101 1001111 1 1111111 10111001 0111111 1011111 1 1010101 1011011 10100101 1111110 1 10010101 1011001 11010100 1010111 1 11011001 0010101 10110001 11010111 1 1110011 1011101 11110001 11000101 1 1110101 10010101 1010111 1111111 1 0011011 1010111 10001001 0010101 1 1010101 0110101 1010101 1010011 1 10100101 1110111 11001010 00101010 1 101110101 1010111 1011101 1110101 1 11101010 10101010 10011001 00100100 1 1010111 1011111 010100101 1111111 1 1110111 1110101 1101101111 11101111 1 10110101 0011111 10111101 10011111 1 1110101 1111111 1000111 0111101 1 11000100 11101001 111001010 111100010 1 1110100 0110100 0010111 1011001 1 1110101 010101110 11010001 010100100 1 111101011 1011111 1111101 1111001 1 11010111 01010101 11100111 10000101 1 1111101 1010101 10100111 1001100 1 1111001 1010101 01000101 1011100 1 1010101 01011101 1111111 1010001 1 1111101 110110101 11010111 11010001 1 01010101 1010101 1101111 11010101 1 1011101 01010101 1110111 10100101 1 01111101 10010111 1110101 11111101 1 1100111110 110111110 11011111 111001101 1 1010101 1110101 1110101 11000101 1 11000101 1110101 010110011 1100101 010100101 1 010101110 0101001110 11111101 11011101 1 10110101 11010101 11110101 110000101 1 11100101 110110100 0111100 10011101 1 10101010 10001010 10011010 10011010 1 11101010 0100010 1110111 10111011 1110111 1 1010111 11100011 1010111 0110011 1 1011111 11110101 0111001 1010101 1 1111011 1111111 01011101 01011100 1 1011101 0110111 1010111 1110111 1 10101110 10110010 1001111 1000101 1 1010101 1010100 11100101 0010001 1 1011100 0010111 1010001 00010001 1 1000101 1011101 1011110 1110101 1 1111101 0010111 1010101 1101111 1010111 1 1000101 1010001 1111111 1111111 1 1110101 1100111 1110101 11111001 1 1011101 1010111 1110111 1110011 1 10100101 1110101 1011111 1111101 1 11110111 1001101 0011011 1011100 1 11110101 01110101 01010101 10000101 1 10100111 1010101 0010111 0011101 1 11111011 1010101 1010111 1010100 1010111 1 1011101 1010101 0010111 1110101 1 1110111 1110101 1110101 1010111 1 11101010 11101110 1111101 0111101 1 1111011 11110100 11010011 10011101 1 1010111 11110101 0011100 01110101 111 1110111 111111001 1110001 11011101 1 11110111 111101 11111111 10101011 1 110011 1111101 0010001 1011101 1 1010100 1110111 11111101 10101000 1 1010100 0010101 1110101 1011101 1 1011101 0111111 1110100 1000100 1 1010100 0010101 010011011 11111101 110100111 1 10101010 111101010 1010111 1111111 1 1010101 1010101 01011101 110101010 1 1000100 1010001 1010101 0010101 1 110101110 11111010 11111111 1111101 1 1110101 1011001 1110111 0010111 1 1010100 1010100 01010111 1111111 1 1111101 1011101 11110100 0110101 1 1010101 0011101 10100001 1011000 1 10101001 1011101 0010101 1010101 1 101101 10101001 0110101 1011111 1 10100100 11111001 10001110 00101110 1 1111101 1010111 01011111 10010001 1 1110110 001011 1010101 11101000 1 1010111 0110111 1011101 1000001 1 1110101 110010111 1000101 1110110 1110100 1 11111100 11010011 1011101 1001111 1 1010101 1010111 1111111 1111101 1 11011101 11011101 1010111 1111101 1 1100101 0010111 1011101 0110111 1 10010001 0110111 1010101 1010001 1 1011100 1111001 01011101 01011100 11100010 11111010 1001000 0010101 1 1111101 1100101 1011111 1010101 1 11101010 0100010 1110111 10111011 1110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 91
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 463
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, she, as, of, again are repeated.

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

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

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

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