This is an analysis of the poem My Final Testament that begins with:

The moon in the summer-night is smiling in the sky
The Snow-white stars are brightly shining too...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcX dXXX efgX bhiX efXX XdaXdXiXdXfX HIJX fgcX ffkX XhXX fhfX didX laIX bkcX lmlX kmbX efkX fdkXdfIX XmXX XXkX kciX HIJX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,12,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0100101010001 0111110101 010001001110 10101000010111 1010011001010 10111001100010 01000111100 0100101011001111 01010010110 1001001100110010 111010110011 100101100100111 110010111 010111001111 11101010 1010100111111 111000100111111 110100111010110010 101001100 110100110010111 1110101101100 1010100110011101 101010011 100010100010100111 1111001000010 1101110011001 11000100101010 111011010101111 010100010 1101001100 111100001011 1101110001000101011111 101111001 10010100101010 1100100110 1110001010010011111 0101011 1110111 0101111011000100 11101101111 01010010010110 1010101010101010 01010010100101000 1100010101111 111010101000010100 110100001101 11000111010 101001100101111 1111111110101010 11001001001 11001111 10110101111 1100010011011010 11101001010 101110100110101 11000101100101000111 110101011 1010101 00101010101010010 1101101010111 1101111000110101 0111100011010 011110001110 11010101011111 11101110111 1010100111 1001111111 10111010011111 111011011111100 00101001101111111 11100110101 011101000101100111 1110011010111 10011 1001010100100 1001101011110110111 100010011010 10011101011010 110010110011000100 100011110010111 010011101101 101101010 00101010101010010 110110101011 101001100 1000110111 110110100100 110100101010111 11001001 11110101000 1111110 11100101101111 1110110110 010010100101111 001011101011010 10001010010101111 101111001 10010100101010 1100100110 1110001010010011111 0101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 23
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 102
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, of, that, i, have, you, to, my, dedicated are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, saddened, that, 'will, to, just are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word ll at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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