This is an analysis of the poem The Two Peacocks Of Bedfont that begins with:
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbcbccX X dedefecc X dgdgdghh X ififidjj a daXadjgg a kikikiee X XakakagX X ececeXbX X fidiXibX h lmlmlmee a ihihihhh X dndndnhh X iiiiXiee X cicicioo X ekekekgg X ogogogcc X lhlhlhXX X efedefcX X XiXiXihX X aoaoaogg X idididee X i
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 0111010011 1101010101 1000010101 0101100101 0101110011 1001010101 11110010101 0101011010 1 11010101001 0111010101 1011000101 1111011101 1101101010 1111011101 0101011111 1101001101 1 1111010101 1101110101 1001010001 1101001001 11110000101 1001001001 0101010001 0111101101 1 0111111101 11010001010 1111001101 11011101010 0101011101 0111010101 11011100010 11110111010 1 011110011 0101001101 1001110001 1111011101 0101110111 1101011100 1111011101 0111010101 1 10010110001 0001010101 1101010011 0111110001 0101001101 1011110101 01011101001 11011110101 1 11010001110 111101101 1111000111 1101001101 1111110111 1111001111 10110010111 11001111110 1 1011011101 0101110111 1001011101 1111111101 1001011101 1101110101 0111011101 0011011101 1 1111110100 1111011111 0101110011 1101110001 11000110101 1101010101 0101011111 1111000101 1 1101010101 1100110111 110100101 1101001101 1101000101 11100010101 1101010111 10110000101 1 1101010001 0101110001 1101010111 0101000101 1101100111 1011010111 1010011101 0111011100 1 1101011111 0111000101 0101110001 1011110111 1001001101 0011111101 1011110111 0101011101 1 1101110101 0101000101 1001110011 0101100101 10110011010 1011000101 1101010001 1010010101 1 111100101 1001010001 1101011101 1111000111 1111000101 0111110011 1000010101 010100011 1 1001110101 0101101101 0101000101 1001110101 1111000101 1001110101 0110110101 0101110101 1 1001010111 10001010101 1001100101 10010101001 1001010101 0101011111 0011110001 1101110001 1 1101011101 1101010101 11000100101 1011010011 0101110111 01010001001 0101010101 01010001010 1 1011110101 10110001010 1111110101 01001000101 1101010101 100010101010 1011110001 1101010001 1 1111101101 1111010101 1111101101 1101110101 1101110111 11010110101 01001011101 1101001000 1 1111011101 1001010001 1001001101 0101001101 0101110101 1011000101 0101110011 1111000101 1 1111010101 10001010111 1101101101 0101010101 0111000101 1101010101 0101110101 0101110101 1 0101110101 1101001101 01001100101 1011110001 1101111101 1100110101 0101011101 0101101101 1 1101011101 0101010101 0111011101 11011011001 0101011111 0101011101 0101111101 1100110101 1 0111101001 0101010101 1100110101 1101110001 10101010101 1101010101 1011010101 1101011101 1 011111101 1111010011 01011100011 1101000101 11011100101 1101000101 1001010101 0101011101 1 1111010100 0101110111 1011010100 1101100101 1101011101 1111 10101 1001110001 11111100111
- Amount of stanzas: 52
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 260
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; in, and, of, into, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, nor, of are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase death connects the lines.
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