This is an analysis of the poem Arabian Night's Entertainments that begins with:

Once on a time
There was a little boy: a master-mage... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcXdXceddfccg heijXeeXfXkacXeeblkeXedmnkXXXXbdde akcboXecbcdcXgnhpcdqrfpcf ehXdhkeddcqrrdrXXehfrekXeXcXkrdkecakdgfddqadc gkiXbXafjgeefqfrdnkXrgasbgadpXg apcgfkkocdrcdcfkcrdpcaqgqkkkeXcqckcdkdnrgdcccXp kkltchkedfckearkddobrdrkccdrebrtkddfqkgnpkgdgfedXqqf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,34,25,45,31,47,52,74,58,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101 1101010101 110001 0101110001 01010101 0100110 101111110 110001011011 100111 0100110101 1101010101 00011010001 100010011 100101 1100010101 111111 01001010011 01010010101 110101 10010100 11110101 1011001011 10011001 11001101 01001101010 011101 0011110001 01010101101 100101 01110101 10010010101 100101 11111 01010011 01011110001 0101 10010010100 1111011100 11110111 111100011010 11111101 0101010000 10001101000 0101001000 1011001100 11001010101 111100100111 011100100 01010101001 11110101011 100101 110100111 11001010011 110100 011101010 01000111 01010100111 11001111001 11010111001 01110111001 11010111 011101010 11000111 010101101010 1101011001 1101010101 101100001 01110100100 011111 10110100101 11010011101 011111011101 11110101111 111111 1111 0111010101 1101010100 0111011101 1101001111 11110111 0110111101 11100111 10110101 10110101011 100110101 01110110111 10010010101 1011010101 11010111 110011001110 0101010100 100101 1101010111 110010001 01010001 01010011 11010100111 1101100 1000010101 1101000100 011111 1111111100 11010101 010101001 11001011101 11011100001 110101 10010101 0101000101 10010100001 010111 11110101101 11011100101 01011000101 10110111001 110011111 01001 0111010100 010111000011 110111 11001000111 01010101 1101010100 01010111 011101 1111010111 11100111 10010010111 00111101 11010010111 11001011100 11011100101 111111 1111001101 10101111 110100011 100101011010 1101010101 111100110 111100111 110100011 1011100101 1001010111 11010101 1101011111 110101 0111000111 1101011 10010100100 1111001111 1111001 1101001001 111010001 101101001 0111011001 0011011111 11001010001 1011111100 110101 10001011101 110101 0101110001 1101001101 110110010111 1011001 11110100001 1011101 11011100101 111101 0101110101 110111 110000101 10111110001 0101011111 1101010111 11010111 01111001 111101101 1111011101 10010110110 1100101 1101101101 1111010111 010101 1101111011 010110010101 0111 11000101 101010101010 010011100 1011011101 110001010001 10010101001 11010101 0111010111 0101010100 10101010001 110111 0110110101 010010111 1111110111 01100101 01011001101 11010011 0101010001 0101100101 11011101 1101011111 0101010111 11010001 11010100111 00110100101 10011100111 0101010101 011101 110011000100 11110110101 01000100111 1011010101 10110111111 11111001 110101 1111011101 11111100 10111101 1101011101 11111111 11011110101 10011100101 1100111 01010111101 11110001001 010101000 1011010011 01110101 1001010101 10110100110 11010001 1101010111 1101 1001010101 11011101 01100101 11010101 1001010111 11100 01001111 01010111 11110010101 110001 0100111100 0110011101 10111011 0101111011 11001001111 10110100101 110111 10110111011 101101 11010100101 11110100111 11011111 101111 11010010111 01010101101 0001010111 010100101111 01010101 1101111111 01101111 1001010101 10011100 1001011011 1101111101 1101011111 1101100101 11011101 01001010001 110011 1111011101 100111 0101110101 1001010111 1101110110 11101101 0101110101 100111 011101 01001011101 11110111101 01001010101 1100010101 01010100 010111 01100100001 101110101 1101111001 10011100101 01000111 1100010111 01010111 11110110101 001110101 0110000111 1101010111 1111001 101011000100 0111101111 1101000001 11100101001 11110101 1111001 11010001100 11111100101 011011 0111010101 110101 01110111 1101011101 1100101 010100101100 01001001 1001000101 1111010011 01011011 1101010101 001010110 1110111111 00101010101 010101 0101011101 11010001 10110111000 11011111101 00101110100 01001101 1110100111 11011110001 01010001 1100011 10000101001 1011110101 100101 010101001 11010100001 01111100101 01011101 0101100 1111111110 101101 11111100001 1101010111 1101011111 01001010101 101110100101 101101 01001010101 1111010111 01010101101 100101001 01110100101 0101111101 010101 1101001000 110010101110 0100001001110 01001000101 11010 100 11011110101 1001010001 11110100 101 10100111111 11011111 110010011111 1101 01000100101 110100111001 0100101 0101010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1628
  • Average number of words per stanza: 288
  • Amount of lines: 381
  • 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, of, to, his, i, all, far, that, one are repeated.

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

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

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

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