This is an analysis of the poem Hay-Meaken. Nunchen Time that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcXdXeXeffgagehhaiigXiXejjkkXXaffellaXXhhebbaXXmmgghhddeXihhnnabbccll
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 71,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0 11110101 11111111 11111101 1111011 11010111 01111101 1 11110101 0111011 1110101 11010101 1111011 0 1101101 1 1110101 01010111 0 11001111 11111111 11010101 011110111 1111111 01110101 1 1001111 01110101 11010101 11010101 11011111 11011111 0 11110111 11011110 1 1101011 11010111 0 11110101 01111111 11010101 11110101 1 11111111 01110111 0 010100101 11111101 111111001 11110101 11011111 11110101 111100101 11010101 01011101 11110101 1 11110101 1110101 01110101 11110111 11110111 11110101 0 11111101 011011 110101111 110110111 10011111 111111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2185
  • Average number of words per stanza: 469
  • Amount of lines: 71
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less 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; his is repeated.

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

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

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