This is an analysis of the poem Den Xvi. Sang that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXX bbXbXcc XXXXXXX bXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXcXXX XX XXcXXXX XXXXaXX XXdXbbb XbXXbXb dXXXbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,7,7,7,7,2,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110 10 111111 10110 1111011100 110101 101101 11111 101111 1000111 111011 101101 111111 111111 1110111 111111 111111 1011101 110101 111101 11111 1011101 1110111 1110101 111111 1010111 1110110 111011 101111 1111111 1111000 111110111 1010101 0110111 1011101 1110100 111101 1110101 111111 11111101 11111110011 1111100 0110111 1011101 1111111 111100 1111101 111111 111111 011111111 111101 111101 110110 1110100 1111111 1110111 111111 111111 101111 111101 111111 11111 111111 111101 1000111 111011 1011111 110111 11011 110011 1111111 1111111 1111101 110101 111111 1111000 011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 85
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, din, d are repeated.

    The author used the same word du at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d, r, t are repeated).

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