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

Files
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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaaXXabaXaccaaddeeaafffaagXaaaccaaXhaabgaXaeeahaaaaaiiXhhaabgaaaaXaajjkkhhkXXbahhha
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 88,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 01 101 0111010001 10010111 100101001 01100101001 101111110001 1010111 1111101 11001010101 101010101110010 10111110001 111010101100 001000010101 1100001 1010001 01101010101 0110110101 1011101 1010101 1010111 10101001 00101010101 00101010101 1010111 1100111 1011101 11111010001 10111010001 1110101 0110110 10101010001 10101010001 10101110101 10111010 11101010 11101010101 11100010001 1110011 1111101 11101010101 101010101001 10100010 10101011 10101010 10111100 1010101010111111110101 11111010 11111110 10100011000110101010101 1011111011111011 10101010101 1011111 0101010101 010111111011 00001010001 1011101 1010101 111010111100 11101010 11101110 0101011101 11010100101 11101010 1110101 10101111001 11111010001 11111111001 1010001 001001 10100110 011110110 101000100 11010100 1101011 11111011 10101010 11101011 10101111 10101110 11100110 11101110 11111010101 1010101 1010001 101011 11100010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3372
  • Average number of words per stanza: 593
  • Amount of lines: 88
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; files, every, ' are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words every, in, and, was, the, when, you'll are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines files, smiles, by are repeated).

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