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  • Rhyme scheme: a Xaaaa X bbbXb X cddcc X aaeea a aaffa a gggXg X hhffh X iiaai X jjaaj c bbeeb a aakka X XbaXb X llffl X ddaad X mmbbm X aafka X llnnl X Xmnnm X aabba X bbggb X kgkgg X aamma X ookko X iilli X aaaaa X dcllc X bbaab X ppnap X qqkkq X bbbbb X rrffr X nncda
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,7,7,7,1,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 0101110000 1101110101 1101111101 1111110111 1111110111 1 0101011101 1111111111 0111010101 1111111110 1110111101 1 0101111101 1011110101 1111111001 1101110111 1111110001 1 0101011011 0111110111 01010110010 0101011111 11011110101 1 11001110111 1010110100 10111111010 01100011010 1101100101 1 1111110111 1101010101 010101011 1101010100 1100111101 1 1011010011 1111010111 11111101010 11011111110 1111101100 1 0111010111 1111010101 1111010101 11111111001 1101011101 1 1101010011 1101111101 1101110101 1101011100 01110100111 1 1101010101 1001011101 1010010101 1010010100 101101010 1 1111101011 1101111001 0101010011 1111110111 1011011001 1 1111010110 1101101101 1100011111 1011011100 1101111011 1 1001111111 1011011100 01110101010 100100101010 1111110111 1 11110101110 11011100110 1111001111 1011010101 01010101110 1 1011110111 111101100101 1101101101 1011010101 1101110011 1 1101110111 1011010101 1101110100 0111110101 0111010101 1 1101111101 1101011011 1000011100 1010101100 1100110101 1 1101111101 1001010111 11011111010 11110111010 1101111011 1 1111010111 1111110111 1111110101 0111111110 1101111011 1 1110011111 0011111101 1101010011 1011101100 1001010111 1 1011001111 1111010111 1111010111 1110011001 1011011111 1 1111010111 1110110111 1011111111 1101010101 1011111111 1 0100101101 0111110111 111111111 11001011101 11110100111 1 1111111111 0101111111 1101101111 1111010101 1110111111 1 1111010101 1100111101 11110010111 11111111 1101111010 1 1111111100 11111111 11111101001 11000111101 0100111101 1 1101111101 1111011101 11010101001 0101011111 111111111 1 1101110011 1111111101 1111011100 1101010001 1101111101 1 1100111001 0101011111 1101010111 1011110011 1101010101 1 1111111011 1011000111 0101110001 1001110010 01001110001 1 1111110111 1100110111 11011011110 1101110110 1100110011 1 1101001100 1100110100 1101101101 1111001100 1010011101 1 1101010011 1101011111 1111111101 1111110111 00110111001 1 0100110101 1111010111 1101101111 1101101100 1101011101 1 11111100010 11011101010 0111000101 1001101000 11010100110 1 1001110001 1110011011 1101010101 0101010111 1111101111 1 1111001111 1111010111 0110111011 1011010101 1111010111 1 1111111110 0101011011 1111110101 11001110101 1101011100 1 11010101100 110100100100 11000110010 01001100010 11011101010 1 1100011101 1111011010 10101111111 1101110001 1101011101 1 0101011100 1101011111 1111111111 0101110110 1010010001 1 1001000111 1001010111 1101110111 11111111101 1011100111 1 0101110101 1101010111 0110010100 1101111011 1101011111 1 1110110110 1001111101 1101110011 1111010111 1101111111 1 11110111011 11010011100 1001010001 1111010101 1111110101 1 1101010001 1110111111 1111010111 1001011101 1101101100 1 1101110111 1011110001 1101111111 1011010100 1111011101 1 1110110110 0111111011 1111010101 11011110011 1110111101 1 1101110100 01110010111 1110110111 1111110101 1101111111 1 1111110011 1101110101 1101111111 1101010111 1010110110 1 1111110001 1111111111 1101111111 1101110101 1101010101 1 1101000101 1101001100 1101010101 1110011101 1101110111 1 1111010100 0101110111 1101110011 1010010101 1101110101 1 0111111111 1111010101 1011010111 1111110111 0111111101 1 1111110111 0101010011 1111110101 1001011101 1111010001 1 1101010011 1101111101 0100011101 11010101101 1011001101 1 1101010101 0101011011 1001010110 0101010001 1111011111 1 110110111 1100011111 1111110111 1101111101 1101101101 1001111111 1101111100 1011010001 00101110101 1101000100 1001010111 1010100101 0111111000 0100110101 0101110100 1101110101 1001111101 1101011101 1010100101 0101001100 1101001100 0101111100 1001110100 110111110 1001010111 1010100101 10 100010101000 10110100100 0101010110 1101110100 1111010101 1010110101 010
  • Amount of stanzas: 122
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 377
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, he, can, to, in, i, as, all, thou, be, her, that are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word alive at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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