This is an analysis of the poem The Flood Of Years that begins with:

A MIGHTY Hand, from an exhaustless Urn,
Pours forth the never-ending Flood of Years,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcddefadgeaahegidibajhklbhjfhXamnhbeebXbbhgbohnpeapafhjhhbkkkdhbbbbbdjfnbebhXhhbphhaXXbhfpbqXfnbbXbpljnopnnmbapdniafkbphhamdXhqbhambippffnbhoXhkfXfchh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 152,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101011001 1101010100 0101010101 1101011111 1101010011 1011110101 0101011111 1111111111 1100110101 1011000101 1101000101 1101000101 0101010101 0111001111 1101001111 0101010101 1111110111 0101011101 0111011101 0101110111 01010010101 100111011 1100011111 01010101011 1011010101 11011100101 1001000111 001001011101 0100111101 01001010101 1011110101 0111110100 1101010111 0101010101 1101011101 0101010101 1111110011 0101101001 0101011101 1101011111 010100101100 1100110101 0101010101 0101010101 0101111101 1001010111 0101110011 1001010111 00101010101 1011010111 1101010101 1011110001 0101000111 1111010101 0111011101 01001110101 11010011101 0011010101 1001011101 0101011101 1101110101 111010101 11010000101 1011111111 1101010111 1111010100 10010100110 01001101001 1101011101 0111110100 1011000101 1111111101 11110011011 0101000101 01010010101 1001011111 1011110001 1101011101 10001010100 11010011111 01010100111 0101000101 0100110111 1101010101 11010010101 11000110101 0101010100 1011111100 11001010111 1101011101 1101001101 11001011101 1011110111 1001001101 1101011101 1001010111 0101110101 1110111011 11010100101 01010101100 0101010011 1001010100 0101110111 1100010111 1100101111 0100110101 1111111111 1011110111 0111110101 1101010101 01011111010 1100111101 110010101 0101011111 1001011101 0101110011 0101010101 0101010101 1111010101 1001100100 10101110011 11010010101 1101101101 1101010011 1101011101 1101011101 10111101010 1101110010 10110111001 01010101001 1011010111 1111011111 1111000101 100110000101 01110001 01011010111 0101010101 01110100101 1011010111 1111010111 0101000101 0111010111 1111010101 11010011010 1100010111 1111010001 0011001110 0010111111 0111010101 01001100101 1111110101 0101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 6623
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1187
  • Amount of lines: 152
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, they, there, who, his, of are repeated.

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

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

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