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

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdXbb eeffddbXeeggXhddiieeaaccddbb ggbbccccXd ddjjffcchhaX hHXi kkggaajj iigXeebbaajjXX aaXddddXggggffccgg aahhbbddccdddd bbhhllaacceekkddbbaa ccXdccgg ggXahhddffeehm hHXi aadd cceeee aaXbhhccii jjbbiXeeff hhggggkk hhhhggiicc Xdgnccgghhccii aXXXXXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,28,10,12,4,8,14,18,14,20,8,14,4,4,6,10,10,8,10,14,18,4,26,10,14,18,10,8,8,14,4,8,8,12,14,14,12,26,10,14,10,6,6,4,4,8,32,14,82,8,22,28,10,18,20,12,10,23,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
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1101011101 110101101 1010110001 0101010111 1101010101 1111011101 111101101 1101110101 1101110101 0101011001 101010101 1100010001 1111110101 1111110101 0101110101 110100101 11110001101 010111101 010100101 0101111101 101010101 1001000101 10101101 0101010101 1101010101 0111110101 0111011101 1111010111 101010111 1111110101 101110001 1101110101 101010101 0101101101 110110101 0101011111 11110011011 1101011001 111010101 1111010101 111111101 101010101 1101000101 1111110101 101001101 11010001101 111101101 1101011101 011101100 0101010111 11010101001 111100101 1101110001 1101011001 1111000111 1101111101 110110101 1101010110 1001001101 1101010101 101011101 0101110101 1101010101 1100110111 101001001 11110101001 0101001101 101010101 1101000101 1101111101 0101000101 0111001110 111110101 1101011101 010110001 1101010101 1011100111 1101010101 1111011101 101001101 0101000101 1101010101 110101101 110010001101 1111010101 1101010101 0101110101 1101010101 1010010101 0111010011 1111011101 0101101000 011110101 11010100101 0101011101 1101010101 0101011001 1001111101 11100011110 0101010101 0111010101 1111010101 111010101 1101110101 1101111011 1101010111 01010000101 111110001 1111001111 110110101 1111011001 0011011110 0101010101 0011010101 1001010101 0111000101 101011001 1101010101 1010101010 1101010111 1111101 1101110101 11001010101 100111101 1101010100 1011011001 1110000101 1111001101 110110111 0101001101 1101010101 110110101 1111101001 110111101 111011100 1101010101 0101011101 11010101010 1100101010 1101010101 101010110 0101010101 110111101 1110111101 1111100101 1110010101 1101011101 0101010101 0101110101 1001110101 1101000101 1101010101 1101010111 1001011101 1001010110 1111011101 101011101 1111100101 1111011101 1111011101 011101101 1101111101 111111111 0101010101 1101010101 101010101 0101010101 1101010101 110101101 0101010101 0101110101 1101110101 010100111 11001010101 1101110101 1111011101 110101101 11001010101 1101110101 101010101 1101011001 111010101 1101011011 1111011101 1111000101 1101011111 1111001101 0101010101 0101011001 0101000101 0101000101 1101011111 1111011101 1101010101 1100011101 110110101 110110101 1001010011 1110010100 1101010001 1000111011 11110110111 11110111 1101011101 111010001 1110110101 11010101 1101110101 111110111 111110101 1101010100 1101010101 010101001 1101011101 111110101 010100101 101010101 1101011101 1001001101 1111110101 1010011100 1111010101 0101011101 0101111101 1101011101 1101110101 1101001101 1101110101 1110111101 1101110110 1011110010 0101001101 1110010001 1101010011 101011001 1101001101 1111011101 0101010101 0111010100 011010011 110111111 101101111 1111010101 1101011101 1101110001 1101011101 0101011111 1111010111 1101010111 1111101001 01010100101 0111111101 1111001001 0111010001 010100111 1101101101 101010101 1001011001 1111010101 111111111 0101010101 11010001001 0101010101 1101010101 001001101 1001010010 10010000110 0101010101 111101101 1101110101 1111010001 1101010001 0101010101 101010101 111000101 0101010110 1111111111 1101110101 011000101 1101010111 101000101 0111111101 1111010101 1100100111001 011110111 101101111001 1111010001 1101110101 0111010101 11010001001 0010111001 110100101 101101101 1101111110 10100101 1101100110 1101001101 1011001111 1101010100 11110101001 111010101 1111110101 1101011101 1101010111 1111010101 110010101 0111110101 1101110101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1111011101 1101000101 110101111 110110111 1101011101 001001101 1111111101 1100111101 111110101 1001010101 1011011101 1101001101 1111011111 1111010101 1111010101 0101110101 0101011101 0101011101 0111010101 101010101 1111010111 111001111 0110010101 1101000101 0110010111 111111101 1111011101 1111010101 01110100101 1011010101 01010010101 1010010101 1001011101 1001000101 1111010101 1111000101 0111000101 1111001101 111011001 0101011111 1111000101 011101101 11001010111 101110111 1010111101 1101010111 1101011101 1001000101 1111010101 010101100 1111100101 1111110111 1111010101 0101010101 1101010101 1111100101 1010001010 101010101 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110111111 0101100101 1111110110 1111010001 11101111 110010101 111110101 101010001 10100101 0101110111 1101010101 0111010101 0111011001 111000101 1101010101 0111010001 0101010010 11001011011 110110111 110101111 111111101 111010101 1011111101 101011101 11110101 101011111 1101011001 101010101 1101010101 1101110101 100010001 1011001001 1101010001 10110111 1111110101 1101011101 1111010111 0101000111 101110101 1011010101 0101010101 0011010111 0101010001 101110101 1101010101 0101010101 110101101 1101010001 11010100101 1101110101 1101010101 101011101 1101101001 1111110111 1001000101 10111011 1101110101 1001011101 111110101 011100101 1101000101 1010010101 110110101 1101010100 0101010101 101001110 1111001101 1111010001 1011010111 1101000101 1111010101 101010001 1101010101 011101110 1101001101 0101010101 111010111 1101011101 1011010101 1101000101 101110101 1001000101 1011111101 1001111101 1111101101 1101100101 1101110101 010110110 1101010101 11010010101 1111111101 011010101 010101101 0101001101 1101010111 1101110101 111110101 0111000101 1101000101 1111011111 0111010001 0101110111 1101011101 111100111 1101011011 101010111 1101011101 1111010101 11010101001 010110101 101001001 111101011 0101001001 0101011101 1010011101 1101110101 1101011101 1111011111 011101101 111001111 111111101 01010010101 11010101010 111100111 010100111 11010011001 0111111110 111001101 0101011011 111010101 0101111101 1011001101 0101011111 1111101111 0101111101 011111101 1101111101 010110001 111010101 101010101 110111101 0101010101 1101011111 0111010101 1101010101 110000101 0101110101 101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 59
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 572
  • Average number of words per stanza: 100
  • Amount of lines: 795
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; their, thy, ye, lett, to, god, him, his, of, with, ile, she, man, be, care, my, much, as, so, whose, thou, i, they, still, now, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words lett, the, be, to, him, within, my, so, she, thine, before, thou, who, that, send, thus, thrice, when, whence, o, till, much, shall, hear, as, they, say, where, i, now, thy, go are repeated.

    The author used the same words o, but 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 in, thou connect the lines.

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  • summary of Moses;
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