This is an analysis of the poem The Conjunction Of Jupiter And Venus that begins with:

I would not always reason. The straight path
Wearies us with its never-varying lines,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabccdeaafgdhXgcifjkXfaahXidcddhcXejaa kcdafaai lXckdacbX XdhjlXgdia dkfdamdlchfafamadgkdgmkakcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,8,9,10,27,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111110011 10100101001 1111010111 1011111011 1001011111 0100010100 0111101100 1111010101 0100010110 1111000101 1111010111 10000001111 1001010011 0101110101 11010101101 1111000111 0101010001001 01111001001 1101011101 0111111100 0101010001 0111011011 11001110111 11110100111 0101010001 1001010110 0101010111 10111000101 0011111001 1011000101 1010110111 1111011110 0101010101 0101010111 11110100110 010110101 0101110101 10010011001 0101110111 0101010101 1111010101 0111110101 1101010001 1101010111 0100111111 1101000101 10010110111 1101110101 0101010101 01010010111 1101010011 1001011101 1111010101 10101110111 11110 10101 1101110111 0111010100 1101001101 1101110101 11010111111 10110010111 1011111101 1101010001 1111010 101 0101111111 1101011111 1100110101 01110111001 1100111001 11010101001 1011000111 1101010111 0101010111 1101110111 0111000101 10010100101 1101010101 1011110111 0111010111 0100010111 1001110011 1101010011 11010100011 1110010101 1111110101 01110111001 1100010111 1111001111 1111011111 1101000100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 782
  • Average number of words per stanza: 142
  • Amount of lines: 92
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, thy are repeated.

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