This is an analysis of the poem Meditations In Time Of Civil War that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbbbbbbccdbdbdbeefafafaggbbbbbbggbhbhbhgg Xgichichbffbfjkfjkdbbdbblbblahhm XchhbXXgjjggbbllhhllffhhnniollnnhh XghbhbhbllicicicaagpgXgpffaoifoiffqffqlqllq aXbobblhohhohohhObobbO XggfcfXhahargrghahXbgbXcgcXfgfgmfmfojojbaba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,32,34,43,22,43,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 01010 100101111001 0101000101 1101010101 1111010101 1111010101 1101110101 1101000100 1101110111 1111110111 1111010011 1101110111 001010011101 10110010111 1000110011 1101000101 110010010001 110010111001 1101110011 10110011101 0101111111 0100111101 1101010111 1100111011 11011101101 1101010111 01001011100 1111001101 010010010100 11010111001 11001010101 11100111001 1111001100 10010010001 1101010101 0100111101 01110111001 0101001110 1011010011 01010101101 1111001100 1 11 11011011010 0111010101 1100101 10010111010 11011101000 0100111 0100111 010101 10101 1101000101 0101010101 01110101101 0101101 1100010011 011101001 101001 010101 010100 010101 1101110100 1111010111 1001011101 0011001 1111110101 0101111101 010101 111101 1100111 0010101 0101000100 1 110 11010101 110101001 111101 101100 11101100 01010101 100101 101111 10110101 11111100 011100 101101 11101101 1000100101 11111 111111 01000100 010101001 010101 1101001 11010101 11010101 111101 110101 10110100 101111101 1101001 111101 11110101 11011101 110101 10111 1 1010 10010001001 0111011101 1101010101 1100011101 1111010101 1101000101 1011010101 1111010101 11010101010 1100100001 11110001010 1111110001 100100110110 010101101 1100110011 01010001001 010101101 1101010101 1111111100 1011110101 1111010101 1111001011 1111010101 1101110011 1 01111 11000100 010011001 11010101 11011110 01011001 01010101 110100101 11111101 00110111 01110101 11110101 01110101 010010011 11011101 0011001 1 01011110 01100100 010010011 01011111 110100101 1100101001 111010101 11010011 01011011 11110001 1101101001 010101101 11110101 11110101 11110001 1100101001 111011100 01110001 11001100 10111101 1100101001 1 11100101001 1010010100 11001011101101 0110111010101 1010111001001 11010111100 0100110010101 1111001000111 100101000101 1001010010011 100101000111 1011100111101 0110111011101 101000101011111 1001101110101 1001010111101 010111010111 110101000110 111100110100111 100100110111 010111011100 0101010100100 110111111101 110101100111 101101011111 0111010011000 0111000101001 010011110101101 111111010111 1101010010111 010111010100 110101110111 1011011010100 001000101111101 110111011101 101101111111 010111010111 110101110111 010001010111 011111010011 011100100100 010101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1366
  • Average number of words per stanza: 243
  • Amount of lines: 216
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; dreams, of, and, that, rage, their, nor are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, a, through, 'vengeance are repeated.

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