This is an analysis of the poem The Renewal that begins with:

No more of sorrow, the world's old distress,
Nor war of thronging spirits numberless,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbccddee fXffbbccbbddccddggffehccii ggddbbffcc eeiiaaaajjehccffjjbbiiffbbbbffeeccddggcc eeXfkkiiffbbfllfggXXffffddddffbXaaccbbff ggmmheddccnnooppddehXdffffllggggmmbbbbffbbffbbddffmmbbggnnjjqqffccaa heoommfXaafXffccccXdffrrcc ccaaddffsseeffXfggjjbbll tte
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,26,10,40,40,68,26,24,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101001101 1101010100 0101001101 1101010011 01111101001 10101101001 1101010111 0111000111 1011010101 1110011111 1001110101 010111001001 1101010011 1011011101 0101000101 1001000011 0100110101 10010101001 01100010101 1001101101 10010010001 1111010101 1100010101 0100101001 1011110011 0111010101 01011100001 0101010101 1101010101 10011011101 1001010101 1001000100 1011010111 1001011100 1101011011 11010101001 1101110101 1101010001 10110110101 01001010001 1011110101 1101111101 1101110101 0101110100 1110110110 0100000101 1101001101 10010010111 11110100001 1001010011 1111010111 1011010001 1101010001 1001010100 1001001101 0111001101 1101111111 1111000100 1101001101 1001111101 1100111101 0101110101 1111101101 1101010001 1111011101 0101101101 11111111001 1011011111 0011011101 1011010101 1111001101 111100100 1111001111 1100111001 1111000111 1011011101 11010001001 1111010111 1100110101 0111011011 0101110111 10001010001 1101010011 0110011111 1001010101 11001011101 1011011111 1100011101 1001010110 1001000101 1011011111 0111011101 01011100101 1001011001 1111010111 1001011011 0101110101 1101010111 0101110101 1000111001 0101111001 1101010101 0101000101 0100011011 1101010011 01001010101 10010000101 0111010101 1011000101 01010101010 0001110101 0111100101 0100111101 0101010001 1101010101 10000101001 01001110011 01010111100 1111010110 01011000101 01000010101 1101011101 0101010111 0111100101 0101110101 1110110101 1101110111 1101001111 0111000101 01011011101 1110010100 11011110001 0100111101 0101010101 1101010101 0111110101 1101110101 0011011111 01010111010 101111001010 1101110101 1001110011 11010111001 00110000101 1110110101 0101100100 1101111101 0001101101 0110110011 01000010101 0101001111 1001010101 1001010101 1101011111 01001011101 10111011001 11110111001 11110100111 1101000101 11011110111 0100110101 1010010001 1101110101 1100010101 01110110001 1100010001 0101101011 0100010101 0101010101 1101101111 10001010111 1001010011 1011010011 1101011101 11010100111 1011010101 1001110101 0101101101 1011001101 1101001101 1100010111 0101010101 1110100101 1101011101 0101010101 010100001001 1001010101 1101010100 1101011101 010000111 1100111101 1101000101 1001010101 0101000101 1101110100 1101011001 00011001010 11111101010 0111001111 1001110101 1111011101 00111101110 1101111101 0110111101 1100100111 1100110100 11111101110 11111110110 0110010110 1100011111 1111111001 11010100111 1101011110 10111111011 1111110111 001001101101 01101010100 0110010001 1101010111 1111010101 1111010101 1111000111 1101110101 1100100100 1101000011 1001010011 1111010101 0111000100 11101010101 0101010101 0101111111 1011011111 1101000111 0011011111 10011000100 0111101111 11011101001 01010111111 1011010101 1101001101 1111011111 0110011101 1111000101 11001011111 1111110101 11110100101 0101111101 0111000101 1011010111 0101110001 1111110111 1010110101 1101011101 111100100101 1101110001 1100110101 01011101001 1011001111 1111010001 111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1214
  • Average number of words per stanza: 221
  • Amount of lines: 260
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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, that, where, i, and, each, to, love, has, or, we are repeated.

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

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  • summary of The Renewal;
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