This is an analysis of the poem Deborah that begins with:

Time Sire of years unwind thy leaf anew,
& still the past recall to present view, ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdeffggaaXf hhggff XfXijjbbccde ccfffXkkffiibbaallccaaff Xfffkk ccllXf ggfXXbmmjglXnnllbbllaaffiiccbbiibbbb ooaallffbbXiiibbgjcc iibb jjffggbbaa ggggXXhhgg aaff bbaa ffllbb ggggXgggffffccXiff ooff iigX Xfggiiffccbb ggccllii ggccffcciiii iillggllXfff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,6,12,24,6,6,36,20,4,10,10,4,4,6,18,4,4,12,8,12,12,22,4,14,12,6,14,6,4,8,4,4,6,4,6,29,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11000011101 101010011 1101010111 1111010101 111111101 0110011101 1111010101 1101010101 1101011101 101101001 1101010101 1101110101 1101010101 010110101 1101100110 1011010101 1101110101 11110101001 1111000101 1101000101 0111010101 1111011101 110100101 0101000101 111100101 110010001 1111010101 1101010001 1101010101 101101101 1101010010 1111010101 1101000101 1101011001 1100110101 1101000101 1101000101 0101110111 111001101 1001011101 1101001101 1111010101 11010111001 1101011101 111110101 111101101 1110010101 1101010101 1001111101 1010110101 1011111101 1011011111 0111010101 010111001 1101010101 1111010101 110100101 1101010101 1101001110 1101010001 010100101 1101010111 101010111 110101101 110110111 1101010101 1111010101 1111010101 1001010101 10100101 1101011101 1101111001 01010011101 0111011110 1101010010 0101010101 1101010101 10111101 110110101 1111100111 110110101 110110101 11110100101 101101101 1010001101 1111000101 1101010101 0111011101 1101010101 1101011101 0101010111 101010101 1101100101 0101010001 1101010111 101010111 1101100101 11010111 0101011101 101101011 0010011111 1101010111 111110101 1101000101 1111111101 101010101 1011011101 0101001101 1111001101 111100101 01010101001 0101010101 0101110101 01001011101 1101011101 1101011101 111110101 1100110101 111101101 10110111 0101011101 111010111 110110101 1001011111 0101011101 011110101 1111011101 1101010101 0110010101 0100101101 0111010101 1101010101 0111011101 1101011101 1111000101 1101010101 110010101 110110101 0111000101 101011101 1111010101 0101010101 11010100001 101001001 1111010110 011000110 1101010101 011010101 1101010101 1101011001 1101100111 1111010101 1111001101 1011010101 1111110101 1101010111 1101011101 0110010101 11001101101 1111010101 110111111 101011101 01001010101 111111101 1101011101 0101010101 11000011 11001001001 01010111100 1111011101 111010001 0101000101 11001101101 100110001 1101000101 1101010001 1101110101 111010101 1101000110 0101010101 101011101 1101010101 1111001101 1111010101 01110011101 111010101 1111011001 1101111101 1101011111 11011010100 0101001110 0101000101 101100101 11011101001 111010111 1001010101 1111001101 101011101 0101001101 1101011101 1100110101 110100101 0111010101 011010101 0111001110 1111011001 1101011101 1101011101 1101000101 1001011101 0101000101 1101011101 010110101 0101010011 0101011001 0101011101 0101001001 110010111001 0101000101 0101001111 1111100101 111010111 1101010101 0101010101 1111000101 1111011101 111010111 110011001001 0101011101 1001001111 1011110101 0101011101 101111101 101000101 1111110110 111000100 0110011011 011010101 111111101 11010010001 0101101101 1101111111 0101000101 1101011101 010111101 1010011001 0111001101 1111010101 0101110111 101010101 1101010001 111111101 0101111001 1011100011 0101110110 101000101 1111011110 11110010011 1101100110 0111110110 1111011001 0111010101 0101010101 1011000101 111111101 001010101 0101010001 110101111 110011101 1111111101 0101010101 1111111111 1111111101 1111110111 0101010101 101011101 11110001111 1101010101 0101011111 1111110101 111111111 1101010101 1101010101 1011011001 1111011111 1101000111 1101110101 1111010111 1111101101 0111010101 1101111101 011100101 11110010111 1101011101 1101110010 1011010001 0101011101 0101011101 0101001101 1101001101 111001101 0111111101 0100010110 110110101 1111110101 0110000101 1111111101 101000101 101100101 11111111 1011110101 111000101 0111010101 1001000101 101001110 10101011 0101111111 0101010101 1101011001 0110010111 1111010111 1101010110 1101111101 111001111 1101011101 1111000101 1111001101 001011001 1101010101 101010111 1101110101 111010000 100101101 1101110001 011010101 0101110101 1111000101 1101011001 1111010101 101010111 1101001101 1101110101 11111101010 11010111010 01110100101 0101011101 1001000101 1011000101 1101000101 0101010111 0101011101 111011001 01110101010 11100010010 1101000101 1110101001 110111101 0111010101 1100010101 011010101 11010011101 10111101 111101101 0101011101 1111001101 101110101 1100010101 1101010101 1101010101 101011101 0101010101 110101101 001111111 0011011111 110111101 001101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 37
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 428
  • Average number of words per stanza: 75
  • Amount of lines: 376
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; o, wake, make, as, now, see, ye, of, in, awake, thy, curse, he, she, with, hail, name are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, that, go, make, now, as, see, the, there, when, my, speak, awake, he, for, thus, deep, hail, in are repeated.

    The author used the same words now, from at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases rest, hail connect the lines.

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