This is an analysis of the poem Year Of Meteors, 1859 '60 that begins with:

YEAR of meteors! brooding year!
I would bind in words retrospective, some of your deeds and signs;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXccddcefebXegXdeabdhebdgXhdhiXhbXbigfjjiXfXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10100101 111011010101111 1111101011000 11111111011100 100010 11111011011111 1110111111101001 100011110011100 10 11101100111001001 010010101101110111 111 01110010010110 1001001001101 111111011100111 1011 111111101001011 1010 010110010111101 01010 100111110110010 111111111111101 11011111010011110 1100100111111110 1 101101001001111111 1111001101111111 11 01010010110011101 101 1010111011001100 101 10111000101001110 1011 010010101010010110 11 10101001111 011101111010011 11111 11111100101010 1000100111 10101100101111011 1001011 11111100101101100 1 111111101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2517
  • Average number of words per stanza: 399
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
  • 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; i, would, of, you, and are repeated.

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

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