This is an analysis of the poem Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcc ddbeefgbg hhdggg daacfcbdid ffXjkXDDlXlkccidiii ggXXmmXndbbcnooo bcppccc bfbnnhhfhdddcada cdc X ighicXhggoddgddghggccdqddDDqbodgggqg hbohbbaa rridiffffeedd X aggpcghhggfgXpgagfg X ffeffsfftuXffbjXs a ccecXbfcrrcbbbqqqpp a qheerXcrccqbpb pede uXdc Xa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,9,6,10,19,16,7,16,3,1,36,8,13,1,19,1,17,1,19,1,14,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1 0010011011101001001010 111001010101010101 11111101 1111010101010 10011011101010 0101001011111 110101000101010 11000111110 1010101 010101 1010011010101 110101001001 10101000111010 10111000101010 10111 1010101 101011100101011 0111 0101101111101 1101011101 1110011010101 0011010001101 110100101 0110001 01101101 111101 0101010 00101 1011010 011010 011100110100 01010101 0111011101 01010110 1001000111 1001000111 0110011011 01000100 0101011 001011110001 00100011101101 0101010110001 0010100110101 01010101 11111 01010101110101 0111010111011 11000101110101 0101011101011 0100110 01000110 111 0010101 0100100 001101 10101010 10101 01101 00101111 0011011 010101 010101 001001010101 11101101 1010101 101010 1010110 100101 1010101 1010101 1110111 1111010 0101011 101 0111 11010101011101 11110101101 011101011 01110001 100101010 10101010 010101101011 101010010001 11010100101010101 101111 0111 11111000111 010011 0101 1 11010111101110 11010101001010 0100100100101 101110010010 0101101 101010 101011011 110111010111 00110101010101 011101 010101101001 1011111010101111 100111110101 1010100101 11111 1101010101001 1111011 011111111 11111010 1011111 1110101 1000110 01010100 0100101 100100111 1001000111 1001000111 10101110 101100101 1110001 11010111010 10111 11100101 1110100111 100100 11110100011001 010111111111 11011100011101 01111111110111 1111010010101 1100101101 01110111101 11011100111 1101010110111 0111010011101 0101010010011 101111101011101 01010101 11111 010001010001 0100011110111 1010001010001 010001110111 1011111001010110 10110101011010 1101111011101 0111011 1 1111111 1001 10101 1101011 111101 111001 11011 010101 01101010101 11111010010101 110101011101 11110111 010101 1101011 0011111 11010110110101 0110110101 1101010 11010101 1 011001 11101 10010010 101 1011110111 1100010100010 1000101 1000101 100111 10010 1000101010100 0101010111 10101 101011001010 100101010111011 11011100 10001000101010 1 0101111 11001 0101010 01001 10001000 1101010 01010111 101011111111 10000100101 11111111 100001 01001010101010 0110010 11100110101010 01011010100010 01000101011010 010011011010 0100101010101 01011101011 1 1001010100010 01011101010 1110101111010 01001001000100 111001011111001 1110100101101 010101010101 01000101110101 0110101011011 1001 10010110010 010100101 101011001011 1010110101 101010101011 100100010010 10101101110 11101011010 10101110 11101111 1001011110 110000111 1010101111 1101011001 1010110110 111110101 10101101 11011101 10101000111 111110100 1011110110 1101011001 101011010010 101101101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 27
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 356
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 241
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; bryan, of, and, there, in, she, my, demons, angels, around, defeat, their, vote, his, hanna, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, the, bidding, and, rallying, defeat, who, gone are repeated.

    The author used the same words and, the, where 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 on, vote are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase defeat connects the lines.

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