This is an analysis of the poem Music's Duel that begins with:

Now westward Sol had spent the richest beams
Of noon's high glory, when, hard by the streams... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbaaccddefccbbfbX egdhaaiiggjjkkllbbbbbbcccchhbbkkaammiibbmmggbbbbdhaaXXllkkeeggddkaggbbbbddcceemmbbccbbeebbdXaaXcaalXaaaaiinnXXXmookkaXllXeaammhhaadXXhppeemmkabbaXeeaaqq
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,152,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110101 0111011101 0101010011 1001001111 01101001101 1101110111 1001000111 01001001001 0101000111 1111010101 1111010101 0101011101 0011011101 01001010110 01100010101 0101011101 10001110101 010001 10 0101110101 11010011001 1001011101 1101011100 0001010101 110101010 1100110111 1111111101 0101101111 0101001101 0111110001 1101100111 1101010101 0001110101 1100011101 11010010101 1101011001 1011110001 1011001111 1011000101 01100111110 01010101010 11100001101 01000101001 0011110101 1011010101 0100011100 1100110100 1101110011 0101110001 11011101001 0101010101 0111011011 0101010101 1100110101 1111110101 11011001111 1100110101 1111010111 11110001001 01010101001 11011001001 01010001001 1111000001 0111110101 1101100101 01010101001 110100010101 0001011111 1001010100 1011110101 0101010101 0101011101 1110000100 0111010101 10011010101 1101100101 0111011111 0101010111 0111000101 0100111100 1111111101 1011011101 0101100101 1111010011 00110001001 1101100101 1100010111 1011110011 1011010101 1101011001 1011110111 10001011001 1011110101 11001111101 0101010111 10110100101 1011000101 1111010011 0101110111 0011000101 1111100101 1101010111 01010100111 0011001101 0101100101 1111010101 0001011101 1011110111 0101101101 1101010001 1010111100 11011011011 10010010101 0111010010 10111100010 10011010101 1111000101 0011110001 110111101110 0001010011 1101010100 1001110101 0101000101 10011011100 0101010111 1101010101 1011110101 0100101011 11001011101 1100010111 01110100010 100111000101 11011111101 1011011101 1001010100 01011011101 1101001100 11010011101 0101110111 1001010110 1101100101 11001010011 1011010011 0111010011 01010011111 11000111110 11011011010 1101111101 1011001101 01010110111 01 100 01100 1110111101 0101110011 0101000101 010101010 010011101101 011100101 0111111100 1111011101 1111000101 11010110101 0101111111 0101111000 0101101101 11011001001 1111011101 1111010101 1001011101 1111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3727
  • Average number of words per stanza: 654
  • Amount of lines: 171
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of, her, or, to, thus are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, or, she are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

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