This is an analysis of the poem D&Aelig;Monic Love that begins with:

Man was made of social earth,
Child and brother from his birth;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbbbbcdeccffeegXee behehigijXkXee decebbjjXddf fjddfccceedcXdbd Xjllddaccdajjeded ffbbababkkgg bgbicciiffkmngkccobddcfcfgdXgppddeeeeXjccijjdddjXbnmXdXcdeedkceXhodc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,14,12,16,17,12,68,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101 1110001 1010101 01110101 10101011 01010101 1010111 10010101 101101111 11010111 01010001 01010101 110011001 11010101 11111101 1011101 1010011 01100111 0101000110 10100101 1011101 111 1010101 101001 110011110 110101 1101010 011101 0101010 111101001 11010010 101010 101010 101101 110111 111101 10101001 1010101 11101 11110101 1010011 01001111 0010001 11011110 10111100 1001001 100101 1101 110101001 10111 010101001 10110101 11111100 0010101 1010101 11011101 1000101 010101010 00100111 0110101 0111110 100101 1101111001 0110101011 0101001001 11110111 111101001 01010101 10101001 1010111 01010101 101001 110100100 1010001 111101 1111 1010101 111101 10110101 1010011 1000101 10001001 1011111 1110101 101101 1111010 1000101 00100010 0101100010 01001110 11110000 1101101 01010111 1011111 110010101 11010 111 0101 110110 10101010 1010101 01010101 101010 01010101 01000 101101 100010 1010001 1001110100 11010101 010101 01010111 11110101 11010101 100100101 010101 010101 010010101 01100101 10101000 0110111 101101 11010111 1101 1101 1101 01001100 1010101 1010101 1010110 1000101 0010101 1010101 00101010 1010101 110011 1111110 100101 0101010 110101 1010010 1000101 01100 11100101 11111001 1010001 1010110 10010001 10011101 1011111101 01100101 1010011 01100101 101001 1010101 0010110 10101110 110010001 0011001 1010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 682
  • Average number of words per stanza: 119
  • Amount of lines: 160
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; of, and, he are repeated.

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

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