This is an analysis of the poem Kora In Hell: Improvisations Xxvii that begins with:

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This particular thing, whether it be four pinches of four divers white powders cleverly compounded to cure surely, safely, pleasantly a...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X X X X X X X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 01100110001100110110100010011010100010100011110101011110010101100101100010011110110100011101000101000100001001010100111 1 101110010001010100101100100011011111001110110110100110101001110100101100011111111010010111011111 1 101101001010010111110110010110111111011101010111001100111010011101011010100110000100111000010110011100100101 1001100011110011010110001101101101001101110010100110000110001111101101100100110001010010101011001010101001000110110010101011001000011100100101011010111011011110001100111100101011101010010010110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 231 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 42
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of, at, your, that, you, be, summer are repeated.

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

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

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

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