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

Now Crowds more off, retiring trumpetts sound
On Eccho's dying in their last rebound,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaacc ddeeff ffggaa hhii jjffXXeeddaa kkffllgXhhddllhhaaXXkk ddddll ccmmfXddeenn nnffffaa hhddXXddaa ggddff llmXaahhllddff nnffggff eeXchhkkaa hhkkjjll ooeegg dddddd ffbbff ddeeffgg aappbbdd ffffffmmggmmffllgghh ddjjgghh fXccddllggmfkkgg oollddddnnbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,6,4,12,22,6,12,8,10,6,14,8,10,8,6,6,6,8,8,20,8,16,12,26,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111010101 1101001101 0101011101 1101010101 1101011101 0111000101 11111100101 1101010101 111010101 1101010101 1101011001 0111110101 101010111 1101011101 110110101 0101010111 110010101 0111001101 1101011101 010110101 1101011101 1101000101 1001010001 100010101 1101010001 1011001101 1101010101 101000101 0101000111 101000111 0111000101 0111111011 0011110111 0111110101 0101001101 101010101 1010000101 1101010101 1101011101 1101000101 0101010111 11010111101 010100101 1111000101 1111110111 101110111 1111011011 00111111001 0100110101 010100101 1111010101 011011011 0101100101 0101011101 1110011101 101010101 1010101011 0111010111 11111101 101110101 1101010111 0101010001 111001101 01010010001 0111111111 010110101 1001000101 110110101 0101000111 0101010101 111011110 0101011001 1111011111 0101110111 0111110101 111011101 11110100101 0111010001 110111101 0111011101 1101010101 111010101 11011100001 01100011001 1101011101 11010011101 1101011101 0101010101 1110110010 101010110 1101010101 10111010111 11110110101 1111110101 1101011101 100110111 1101110001 11110010011 1111110001 110010101 01110010111 11010111001 0111111101 111000110 0111010101 1111110111 0111000101 101110111 0101110101 10110010011 0101010101 101110001 11110001001 1111001101 1111001101 0111011101 1111010101 101010101 1111110101 111110101 1101010101 1101001001 1111000101 0111011011 0101000110 1100100101 1101000101 110111001 11001011101 1101000101 1111101001 111011001 0101110001 111100111 1111001101 010110101 110111101 1111111101 111110101 111101101 0101010101 1001000101 0101001101 1111011001 011111111 111010101 1101010101 1110000101 0101010111 111010101 1011110101 1101011101 1111010101 010100101 1111010101 101011101 0101001101 111111011 0001011110 101110101 1111010101 101011101 0110011111 101110101 111011101 101010011 1111010101 1111110011 1111011101 1100111001 1101010111 1011011 1110010101 0111001101 0101100011 11111100101 1001010001 1001011111 0111010111 1001011101 101110101 11000010101 1101001111 1100101101 110100101 01001010101 110101101 011101101 1101000101 101101101 1111011101 101011101 1111011101 0011011101 0101000101 1111100101 1111110101 11001011101 1101010101 1111011001 0101011101 101010111 1111101101 1101010111 1101011101 0101010111 1001010101 0101111111 0101011101 101011101 1111001001 101000101 1101010111 11001101 1111010111 1101011101 1101110101 10101001 0101110101 101110101 0101010011 111110101 1111110101 101010000101 11111111 111100101 1111010101 101101001 1101001101 11010011001 1111000101 1101010101 1111010101 0101001111 1101011111 1111011101 1111011001 011011111 1101110101 0101110101 1100110001 10101011011 1101010001 010100101 111010101 111000101 1101110101 1110011111 111111101 0101010001 1111010011 11010010101 0101010101 011111101 1001001110 1101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 432
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 257
  • 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; his, to, her, she, ye, in, none, by, with, their, he, of, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words if, the, he, all are repeated.

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

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