This is an analysis of the poem Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen that begins with:

MANY ingenious lovely things are gone
That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abababXcdcdcdceeXdbdbdffgXghgijjbXbebebbbcbcbfXcXkgbkgdbbdXeaeeaeebbeabfabfbkkbalbalbbmmbmkmkebebbcXcaabhbXheiehicXacbancbncbaefXef
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 131,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001010111 11110000101 0100010001 1101010111 0101010111 1101010101 1111010100 1101011011 1111010111 0101000111 0111101111 1110010011 10010100111 1101111101 1111110111 1011110111 11011101100 1011010101 1101110101 0001010011 1101010101 0100110100 1101110101 0101010111 1111010011 1011010100 1101010101 0100111111 0111010101 1111000100 1101011001 1111010001 1111011101 000101011000 0101111111 1011110101 1101010111 1101010100 1111011101 1101010101 1011010001 1001111100 1101011101 1101010100 01000110101 0111100100 1101010100 1100011011 1110011010 01010101001 01101001 11001101101 110011011001 100101 111111 100101 11110111 10010010001 1 110011010010 01010101001 1110101 10100101010 0111100101 110001 011111 011101 1001101 1111000101 01001101010 010101011111 011101 11000110010 111111011 010101 110111 110011 100101 1101111101 011100010010 1101110101 011101 110100101010 0101001101 111101 110101 0011111 110101 1110110111 1110101 1010101 1010011 01010101 1111101 11110101 111111 01110001 11001001 1111101 01110010 111101 11011101 1111101 1111100 11010101 110101 1010101 111111 110101 11110110 010111 01111111 100100 1000101100010 11110101100 110010011101 110101110110 11110110101 1001010101 01010101110 1001100100 11000101001 11110111010 11010011101 0100011111 1111110101 1101011011 10011010111 1100110100 01011101001 1111011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4923
  • Average number of words per stanza: 891
  • Amount of lines: 131
  • 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; and, we, thought, or, that, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, but, or, whirls, the, they, to are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase that connects the lines.

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