This is an analysis of the poem Nature In Perfection that begins with:

Mater ait, tacta est dea Nomine Matris.
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  • Rhyme scheme: X X XX a bbcXccddbbddee ffXgchddchXddXiibbjX ddff kkccjjffch ffddff llddmmbbbnffiiddbbff ddjjjjeeccbbbbbbff ddnniiaaccff Xjffddggee ddbbXj ooddnnbbccggbbggddccbbffkkaaccjjff ddbbaaffddddppffddee X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,2,1,14,20,4,10,6,20,18,12,10,6,34,20,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101100111010 10 100101010 10010110111010 10 11001011101 0101010101 11100110100 111101010 0101110101 0101010101 1111010011 0101000101 0101011111 1111011101 0101011101 11011100001 0101010111 1101110101 01110110101 1101110001 11111101100 1101010011 11110100101 11010101010 0101011101 0101010101 1101010011 1101010100 1001110101 1011110101 1101010101 101101000100 11111000101 1101011101 0111010101 0101010101 1011010101 1101111101 1101110101 1111110101 0101010111 0101010111 01010100101 11010111001 1111101011 1111110011 1101110101 1111111101 1101111101 1101010111 111001110011 0111111100 1101110001 1100011111 1101111101 10110010001 0101010101 1100010111 0001110101 0101110101 1111100101 1110011101 1111000001 1110000101 1101011101 0111100100 1010111111 1111101110 1101100101 1101011101 1111111111 0111011101 1111010101 1101011101 1111010101 0111010101 1011010101 11011011111 01111000101 0111010101 1101011101 11001010101 1101001101 1111011111 1101010101 1101111101 0111010101 1111110101 1011010101 1111001101 01110110101 1101011101 0101001101 1100011111 1011010101 1111011111 1110110101 10111010101 1111010101 0111010101 1101010101 1100110101 11100101 0101111111 1101100101 0111001001 110011101111 0101010001 11010101010 1101010101 11010010001 1101010001 11001010111 0101110101 0101010101 1111010111 1101100101 1101010101 1111111101 1101010101 10011100101 1001110001 01011101010 01001011101 1110010001 01000011001 1001000101 0101010101 1111110101 1111110100 0101011101 1111011101 0101010101 1101010111 1101010001 1111010101 0111011101 1101100101 1111001101 11110001101 11011110001 1101010011 11011100001 0101001101 1111100101 1101111101 1111110011 1101010001 1101010101 0111011101 1100110111 1101010101 111010101 0101010001 1101100101 0101110101 1010010101 1101011101 11010100111 110101001001 1101111101 1111010101 1011111101 1101010001 1111010101 1101111111 11010101101 1101011101 1101001011 1101010101 1101001101 1101000101 1101011101 11110010101 111110101 1101110101 1111010101 1101110101 10
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 456
  • Average number of words per stanza: 79
  • Amount of lines: 192
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, in, your, still, and, you, my, by, their, for are repeated.

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

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

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