This is an analysis of the poem With Esther that begins with:

HE who has once been happy is for aye
   Out of destruction's reach. His fortune then ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbadadefeXgg hbhbfifiajcjkk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111010011 1010010101 1101010100 1001000101 1101010101 1001010011 1111011101 1111010111 0101110101 1101001100 0101011101 1101011100 0101110111 0011000100 1111000101 1111011001 1011110101 11010101011 1101011100 1111010111 1101111101 1111111111 1001011111 1111110101 1111110100 1101011101 1101011111 1101001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 709
  • Average number of words per stanza: 113
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • 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; has, its, i are repeated.

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

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