This is an analysis of the poem The Mystic Selvagee that begins with:
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXaccdda XbeeXffggX hhaahiiffX ddaaXddjjX ccaaXffjXk kkccfbXfff jjbbXffkkX Xjllmbbddm kkbXXbbnnk dXkXmccbXm jjddXbXXkX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 11000101 01000101 010011 11111 011101001 01010101 11010101 11010101 11011 100010110 010100111 101010101 01110101 01010 101110111 01011100 10110001 11011101 101110 11000101 01010101 11010101 01010001 01110 11011101 11010101 11011011 11011101 10100 11010111 11111101 11010101 01010101 11010 11110101 01010101 11010001 11011100 01010 10100111101 101110111 11010101 11010111 11010 01010101 01011111 101110001 11010101 11110 100111111 11011101 11110101 11110101 01110 01110111 1111010 11111101 11011101 11010 1010100111 011101000 11100101 11010101 11010 01010111 11011101 11011001 11011001 110100 1100010010 110011101 01111101 01010001 11110 11000101 01000101 11010101 11110101 01110 11010101 11110101 1011001111 0101110 110110 1001010111 01000101 110010101 01110001 11010 11110111 10111111000 11010101 01011100 11010 01011101 101011101 111111011 1001110 01010 101111111 11010101 11110111 1101101 010100 10101001101 10101110 110111110 11011101 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 330
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 110
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, his, that, i are repeated.
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