This is an analysis of the poem Largo E Mesto that begins with:

Out of the poisonous East,
Over a continent of blight,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabbacacdeedccaffgahgiihbbaXjajgkkgjllgagfmgammfgkmgjkXjlbbfjjiaifaaflmlmbbcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 78,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001001 10010001 10100010001 0011010001 011001000 01011101011 11010101 1101000101 100101 0100010101 101010011001 01001011111 00010010001 0101011101 00110100101 1101010001 11101010011 10110000101 01011111001 11110011111 00101010101 01010001 01110001110 010011101110 10010001001 01010101111 1101010101 1001000111 1001010010 1111111101 10011111001 10000010001 1011011101 1101010101 1001000101 10110010101 111101 11110110101 01011011001 0101111101 01101101001 0110101 01001010001 1111000111 10010010001 101000101011 00100010101 0101010101 1001010101 0010011111 01010011 11010011 11001011111 11000010 1001000101 11111101000 110100101010 01001011101 1101 10011101001 10011101 1011110111 1010010001 11110101001 110110001001 1101010111 1101011101 11111010101 01110111111 11110101 00101010101 0111 11101110111 111111 111100001 011001000 1101110111 0011010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3175
  • Average number of words per stanza: 550
  • Amount of lines: 78
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; of, and, with are repeated.

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

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