This is an analysis of the poem The Legend Of St. Sophia Of Kioff that begins with:

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[The Poet describes the city and spelling of Kiow, Kioff, or Kiova.]... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a X bccbcdedfgX X h cigiggffggXgigg jg kkhggggg X j cillci X X bkbgmk a c ndXigi a jX gfioiggo X c gfffgf X c jcjc gggX g gXgg pXpq j eeee c ghgh j chch r fpgp e sgXX t titX X g iiei k ckek eg ehgh g gXfX j giXi j cjgj Xgfg g cggg g ejXX f p icip
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,11,1,1,15,2,8,1,1,6,1,1,6,1,1,6,1,2,8,1,1,6,1,1,4,4,1,4,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,1,4,1,4,2,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,4,1,4,1,4,1,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,2,6,6,1,9,1,9,1,6,2,13,1,1,9,1,4,6,4,2,4,7,7,1,1,6,7,6,1,6,8,6,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,1,1,9,1,6,1,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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11010101100 01010101010 11010101010 01000101110 1 01010101100 10101010 1010011 10101010 1100101 10101010 1010101 10101010 1010100 10101010 11111011 10101010 11110010 10101110 10101010 10100010 10100010 10101010 1010101 11101110 0010111 10101110 100110 11100110 1010101 11101010 1011001 01110100 1011111 10111111 1111001 11101010 0010111 10011010 1010101 10011010 1010100 10110010 10101110 10101000 100101010 111001010 1011111 11101110 00011011 1011010111 10101010 1110101 101110011 1010111 1 1010101001101 1111010011110 11011011001 11111111011 001001111011 101001111001 11111001001 11011011001 1100101011 001011011011 00101 11011010101 101001011001 10111011010 0110110111010 11010001100 110011111 101100101001100 010110111001 10110101010 11011001001 1111111011 1011011001 1101110001 101011111101 1110111101 111111110110 010110010110 11001011001 01001101001 0110101011 101101001011 10010101 110011010010 11011001011 11011 01001 1101011010010 101101 11001 0110100100110 1 01010110010 1001110001 11010100110 010111 10101101011 10001010111 1101010111 1011011101 110101 1111110110 11101010101010 0101010101 1101011101 1101110001 0101110100 000111110111 1 01001010 1001110001 110101 11010101010 01110 1111110101 010111 1111010111 011101 11110101010 1101100 1011010011 1101 01001111110 11001 10010100110 10110 10110101110 11110 0101010001 11010 10010010010 11110 10101001001110 110010 0100101001010 010010 1101110111 0111 0101000101 110001 111100110010 0101110 11110101010 11010 11010111110 11000100010 011101 1100 100010001010 11010010101 10010101110 0110111101 1101010001 01010101010 01111101011 1111100101 0101010100 1100110101 1111011000 0111110011 1101010111 1101011011 11001011100 101010101000010 11011 11001 110101001001 10011 101001 110110 0010010 101101 101001 01101 01010 0101010 1001 0101001011 11011101 1111100110 111110100 11111011 10111001 110010101 101001101 01110100 10101001 101111111 111001001 10100110 11010110 110101001 10111101111 0011010001 1001010111 1101010101 1101011010 0111010101 110010011001 1111010101 01011100101001 101001 111110011 1101011 11101001001 110110101 1010111011 11101011 1110110101 01110111 00101100 001101010 1100110100 11010111 10010100 1100111101 110010 1111 1101101011110 010110010110 1010110111010 11011111011 1111101111010 111011101001 11001101011 1111110011 111101111011 101011111 1 110 01101101011 11101001011 01011111001 101011111101 011010101101 11011011011 11101101111 0100101101 01011011001 01011011011 010010010110 111011111010 110110110010 010110110010 11011101101 11001011011 110011001011 1101111111 00110010011 110100010110 110110011010 1010101 001101101101 11011001011 111011011010 010111010010 101010 1010110100110 110101101011 1101101010010 101011101111 111110111010 11101001101 011110011110 11011011011 110110010010 110111011101 110011110111 0111011111 110010110110 010110011010 1100101110010 010110111110 0110100100100 110101001 1001011000110 1010111011110 010010010010 11111101101 11111001011 11001110101 0101011 11011 1011101 10110101 1110111 1010101 10111101 1000101 0010001 1011101 1101011101 1101011101 1001000101 111111111101 10101011101 010101011010 11000101010 11111111110 01011100100010 1001010101 0111010101 1101011101 1101011111100010 1 110101 11010001001 1011110101 1101010110 1110010101 1100011101 0111010101 11000100100 011010111010 01111101011110010 110101 100101001011 11001011101 11000101001 10010010101 1001010001 01000101101 11010101110 11010100010 100100111001 1101011111 01110101010 11000101000 10010010101 1010011000 01111011010 11010111110 110111110101 1 10101 11110111011 11101111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 178
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 724
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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, ding, her, of, they, it, he, waited, with, in, there, goes, as, you, through, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and, the, send, 'the, he, vain, of, there, in, with, they are repeated.

    The author used the same words and, he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

    The poet repeated the same words it, citizens, drilling, clergy 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 kioff, you connect the lines.

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