This is an analysis of the poem Chanting The Square Deific that begins with:

CHANTING the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the
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  • Rhyme scheme: abcadefgbbhijaXbiig hdkbbgjkcXXgXlfaeicfcXXib ibiiXldfbbdfXfb jilXhcXkXcalkb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,25,15,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001101001010100 1 1001111001010001 1011010110001010 11 111111001 11011111110110 100001010101010 1010100111001 101101011011001101 10 01010111010111011 11 11110110101010100 01011011111 110101101011100101 1011 10100110110000101 01 1000110101010 01010100100111 0111011001111001 10 0011011101101110 1001 110101001100001011 1011100101010101 10111011001 1011110111110110 11011 101110101111001 00101 11101011011010111 010100 10011011101011000 1111110100101 100 001011010011111 10 1111110111101101 101 111001111101110101 1 1111011111101 0101011001 1101001001 100101100 010111111001011 11101 10111101010100101 1 01101101010010010 1 10111110101111 1110100 01011011110101110 01011110 100101111100101110 111111011111 10100101 01011011 0101011010100011 011010110011011 0101111100101010 10110 01000101101110110 1 100110010100100100 10001 100111011110110 1001 10110001010110 11110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 930
  • Average number of words per stanza: 139
  • Amount of lines: 76
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; out, of, i, lo, including are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word beyond is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines laws, wiles are repeated).

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