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  • Rhyme scheme: abbccddeaeaXceeeffbbgghchcibiX XjjXbffbcggcckkccddll ebebbdXdjdkd XmmXnjkbbbbbbao ffeeffffeeaannccddeX Xblbldjdjffnncceennnnoaeeeeeeappeeaae eqqeebXaaaaeekX Xccff kXak qlqlakekebacannggcjXj kbbbbnnXXXXeeffaonneedcdcbbeeeeccnnffcceennaaccaajjhhXbjeXe b
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,21,12,15,20,37,15,5,4,21,59,44,23,61,35,67,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1011001 001001011 1100111 011111 100101 1010011 1100101 111111 1100111 111101 1110110 1111111 0011101 0110101 1010011 1001101 1010001 10011101 11110101 11101110 11101010 11010101 11011101 1001101 1001111 10010101 1111110 1110101 10111000 1 11110101 010001001 1000001010 11000111 01011111 11010101 01110111 01010101 01011101 01011101 10010101 01110111 1111001010 010001010 10011101 11010101 011001011 011001011 10110111 10110101 1011001 1011101 11010101 01110101 110101001 11010101 11010101 10110111 11001101 11010101 11000100 11010101 1 010011101001 1001011101 11010010110 01101110111 1101110101 1101110110 110111001001 011010111 110100001010 110110001010 1110011100 010101111 1101100011 0101001100 1101010101 11000100100 110100001001 1101010101 1111110101 1110010111 1101111111 1011011001 1101110101 11110100101 0100010111 1111011111 01110100101 1101110101 1101110111 0111010111 1110011011 0101010101 1011011101 111101011000 1 1110011 10100111 01110101 010101 01110101 110101 110110101 111101 01010101 01010101 01111111 01011001 01110111 11000101 10011111 0011001 11010101 11011101 01110111 01010011 11110100 01010111 111101 1110101 11111111 110101 01000011 11010111 111101 11110101 11110101 11010111 11100101 0101011 0101011 11100101 10000101 01010101 11110111 01010001 01110101 11010100 01110100 10101011 1011101 111101011 10010101 1011101 01000101 101101010 010101010 1 110111001 11010101 11011111 11010101 10010011010 101 1011 11010010 11000101 110101 11011111 010101 10111111 01110100 010101 11011100 110101 01001011 01001110 01010101 11110101 11010101 1000101 11000101 1011101 1101101 00100101 11111100 110101 110011010 1010111 1010101 01111001 1010111 10101001 1111111 10110110 101101110 01101110 01101010 1011101 11110111 11110001 11000101 11010101 01110100 11010001 010100111 11011101 100010101 10101101 110011001 01011101 01110101 11010101 01000101 1010101 1100001 1011111 01010101 00110011 010101011 11100101 0010101 11010001 00010101 11101100 11101100 11010101 101101010 11010111 110101001 11010001 1110101 11010101 01000100 01010101 11110100 1110101 0110011 11010001 1011101 11010111 11010001 10011101 1101010 11111110 11101101 1101100 1011 1101100 1011 1000101 011110101 1010100111 10010111 1010 01110101 1010111 0101011 11111101 11111011 10010001 0010101 1010001 010011010 011111000 01010111 00110101 01010111 011101111 01010100 01011100 11100111 11010001 11000100 01010101 110111010 010001010 01010100 01010001 11111001 10010101 01010101 10110101 1101111 11011001 1100111 11111101 01100111 01010101 011101110 1010111 111111101 11101001 110110100 1110101 11010111 11010101 1010100 11111111 1011101 1010101 0111111 1010101 010010101 0010101 111111110 110110010 1101010 10101100 1010110 1010100 01111110 01010101 11010101 11010101 11110101 01010101 1010111 01110111 01010001 10011101 11010011 110101001 10110111 111010100 11111101 11110001 101010101 1010010101 01010111 01111101 11010100 10111111 001101001 1000101 111101100 110101100 111101010 011111100 11010111 10111101 11010011 110010111 111111110 111111010 11011101 11100100 01110101 10111001 101110101 11111101 11110101 11011011 010010101 11001100 11110101 0010001 10110111 1010100 11011101 11110111 11110011 10100100 111101010 111100010 010010111 1101111 01001101 010010101 10100101 11110101 1010111 110110010 00100010 10100100 110101 11101101 11011111 11100101 1001010 11110101 11000101 10111101 11011100 101010101 110100100 01111101 11011100 11111101 01110101 11011101 11110101 11011011 11010101 11001101 0111011 010101001 010100111 101100100 01101101 01100111 0111100101 011110111 111111010 11111110 11110101 01111101 111010100 11011101 1011 10110011 101111101 1111111 11111101 11000101 101100010 10111010 1011100 1010001 10101010 00110010 0010101 01000101 11011101 11111111 111111110 101101110 101100101 110010101 1010011 1010101 11110011 01110111 1101101 101101001 1011101 10001001 0100101001 10100111 1100100 1011101 1010100 01001001 10100100 11100101 1111111 01111110 00101010 01110101 01111101 00010111 11010101 101101010 010101110 101110001 01011101 01110101 0011110101 1111000010 111111110 01010100 10100100 010101001 010100111 11011100 11110101 11011100 11010100 1100101010 100101010 10010001 10010001 1001010010 100100110 101001 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 999
  • Average number of words per stanza: 185
  • Amount of lines: 477
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor, of, he, him, his, it, or, and, through, me, my, whom, to, with, in, thy, too, on, i, all, every are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words wonderer, it, he, whose, or, through, the, when, and, whom, in, not, o, of, to, whence, thy, on, i, all, with are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him, me, ' are repeated).

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

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