This is an analysis of the poem Me Imperturbe that begins with:

ME imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature,
Master of all, or mistress of all--aplomb in the midst of irrational... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabXcccdXaXbdaaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001011010 1001110010100100100 1 0111100101011 1011010100101001011 010111 110110110011010110100 110100100011110100 101010011001000101011 11111 010110100110101101 110011011100 10101101100 1101 0100 10011110101100011 0111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 863
  • Average number of words per stanza: 134
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, or are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines subordinate is repeated).

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