This is an analysis of the poem Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 3. that begins with:

SCENE I.-- Adam and Eve.
Oh, my beloved companion!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcdefghij hhklie gbkkabjjmaXienickXkehjkiiekdcebhceXinondaikicahnlcickXbk ekcijonjjmipib iciiik hbcngko idjcijjkbdianjinicdcf qcaeXadbd beh kkcb nXdbheq dmodnikoobXhXeh nbiodebXeaibchccb knpnrpb aeiig ebbdk pdb niie rbXkenibedecsekjeXh iqsbX eaqbqicobqj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,6,56,14,6,7,21,9,3,4,7,15,17,7,5,5,3,4,19,5,22,5,8,9,10,3,1,1,10,7,2,3,1,1,1,11,1,11,1,6,5,9,10,4,29,5,1,28,2,3,2,3,5,1,1,28,7,1,3,2,4,1,32,1,18,2,3,15,15,19,11,1,5,2,3,27,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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101010110 1011101010 100101010100 1101011011101 11000110010 0111011111 101101110 0101010 100101010 0101010 11010101010 1000111110 111101 0010010 1111010 010001 111010101011 1010 10011101010 1011111101 11000101010 1101011111 1001010 1001010111 11010100101 11011111011 010101 1101110 010111 11010101010 0100010 01010111010 1011010 11110111010 1001010 0001010101 11111111010 010101111000 1101101011 111001101 11110111110 11011100010 110101 11010101110 01011111110 1011111111 1011001000110 01110111110 110011 1111001111 0110111 1011010 11011001011 1010 11010011010 11111101010 010011 1001001111110 0101010 111001001010 11110101010 1001100 1011110 1010 10110111010 1011010 1100010101 1100111101 1101000101 110101 1011010 0101010 1110110 11110101110 1001110 0101011110 1111010101 1011011101 1001001 010011 1101010111 1111010111 1111000110 0111010101 1111010100 0101010111 11010101100 0011110001 1101110101 01010111010 1100110 011101 0111001010100 1101110001 110101 1110010101 111101011 10111111 0111010001 110111 1111001 11010001010 1101110101 010101 110101 110101 010100100 1101010101 0111010101 10010101010 1111011101 0111010 111101 1101010 1101010001 101111111100 111011 11101010 1100010 1111110101 1011111101011 1101010 111001 110111 011101 1101001001 100101 111111 110111 0101010 1111010101 10010010001 110001 010001 1111010001 10110111 1101111 1101010 01110101010 0111010 0100111 100111 11000100110 110111 010101 11010100111 1110110111 1111011111 1001110101 111100 11011010111 1111111 01010100010 1111010 1110110 1101110101 1101110 10011100111 10010111110 1101000101 10110111010 1101110 11010111010 11010111010 1101010 1101010 111100 010110 11110000111 100101110 1101100111 1011110111 1011010011 1101110111 1111010011 01111111111 0101001111 10110001001 100111 01110101010 110110101011 101001110101 01010001110 01001011111 1101110101 100101011011 10011101 10110001010 11101010 1111010 101010001010 101101111101 10010111010 11010010 01110001010 0101010001 10111101111 110011001010 11010011010 1001010 010001 11110001010 0101011001 1101011101 11011001010 0101111101 1100010011 0101010 1111000101 1101011101 0111110 101011 1111100101 1101011111 110101 1011010 11000110101 01110100111 1110010111101011 010101 1111001 0111011 1100011111 110111 11110101011 1111110 1111011101 01000101001 10110100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 79
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 656
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; what, my, thee, with, to, it, and, these, more, of, so, i, her, or, that, thy, his, me, o, why, thou, you, now, she, eve, if are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words oh, a, and, with, you, but, this, the, now, adam, she, eve, if are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same words hell, horror at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases adam, man connect the lines.

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