This is an analysis of the poem The Golden Gate - I (A Novel In Verse) that begins with:

1.1.
To make a start more swift and weighty,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXbaaccdeddd XfeXeccccXgghii Xjejecckkheehdd XfcfXhheelddlmm XmgmgaffennXff Xagaaookkfmmfkk Xhbhbmmggogaobb XbebeaacXmeembb XpcpcaammbmmbXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,15,15,15,14,15,15,15,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 010111110 11110101 011101 11010111 010001110 10101010 11011101 10110111 001101111 111011101 1100011011 110001001 01010101 1 110100110 1000101 110100100 10010001 110111011 010111011 01010101 11110111 010101110 01011101 10011101 111101010 11111001 01001111 1 111001010 01010101 010111010 01011101 010101010 111101010 10110111 11011101 011111010 01010101 100000101 010011110 11110111 01101101 1 111101010 01010111 010101010 10010100 011111010 1101001010 11011111 10011101 0100101010 00010011 01110101 010101010 10010001 01010101 1 110101010 11011101 001111010 01110101 1111010100 01010101 01111101 100111010 10011001 01010111 100101110 01011101 01010101 1 0111001010 10010101 110110110 01011100 100101110 010101010 0100101 10010101 010101010 11010001 11010101 001101010 01010101 11011101 1 010111110 11011001 0011110100 01000101 110101110 11001100010 010010101 11010101 010111110 01110101 100100100 110100010 01010101 01110101 1 111101010 01110111 11000101010 1100011101 011101110 110101010 100100001 010101010 110101010 11010001 01010001 011111010 011100111 01011001 1 111001110 01010101 100101110 10010111 1010010010 101001010 11000101 010110111 010111010 10110111 111100101 100101010 111000110 01010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 494
  • Average number of words per stanza: 85
  • Amount of lines: 133
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, his, he, to are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word 1 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 gates is repeated).

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