This is an analysis of the poem The Waggoner - Canto Fourth that begins with:

THUS they, with freaks of proud delight,
Beguile the remnant of the night;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeefggfefehhfiifjjeekkcccaaaffjjllffeeaacceedXeaeeeccmmeebbhheeaaiijjbbaannffhhahahaaaXeejjjkkjjeejjoogpgpjjeaaenniqqicceeaaqqjjbbmmkknnjeejbbkkcchjjkhkaakefefiiiidpdeepjjeeeeeeXgrreeffaajj hbhbhheffXkkaammkXejjkkcnkhhggpppbbjjhheehheeaajjddcjcjj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 196,73,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 01010001 1100101001 01011101 10010011 01010101 10110101 11010101 101100001 010010001 11000101 01110101 01000101 011100011 01011101 11011111 010010101 11110101 01011101 10010111 110101110 110101010 111101111 010110001 11111101 110101001 01010101 01010101 001101001 10010001 11010101 01010001 11110101 11010101 01110111 11011001 10010101 111110111 10011101 011100101 11111101 11011101 010100111 1000101 111100111 111000101 110110101 01010001 01010101 11010101 01111101 01010101 11110111 11010101 01010101 010111001 011100101 11010111 101111101 11010101 11110101 11010101 01110101 11011101 010100010 010100010 01010101 110101001 10110101 10111101 110111010 100001010 100101010 111101010 11110001 01001101 10011101 01010111 10010101 100010001 010101110 0100100010 10010101 1010111 0010101 1000111 1011110 10111011 11100001 11110001 11011101 01111001 01010111 10111110 1110101 1010001 1010111 1010101 1010111 11111001 0011001 10111010 10111010 10010101 01110001 10110101 1010101 10101010 111001010 11000111 00100101 01010001 1010101 10001101 11010001 01110111 10010111 11011101 11000101 11110110 10001010 10110110 1011111 10110101 10101010 1011111 1011111 0111101 110100101 01011111 01110001 11010101 11101001 1110101 01010111 00111110 11111010 1100101 1010101 11110101 11000101 101100010 10101110 1000101 10001001 0010101 01011101 010111010 111111010 1010101 1010101 100010101 11010001 111101011 11101010 10101010 1010101 10101011 10100101 1010101 1110111 11010011 1010101 1000101 1010101 10010011 10101110 10100110 111101010 1010110 01010101 10111111 11011111 01010101 01110101 1111111 110101010 010101010 01010001 11010001 111110001 11110000 010101010 100111010 110011110 11011111 11010101 11001101 01011101 01000101 11010001 11110111 11001101 11010101 11011001 11110011 01111111 010001001 00111101 11010111 11111101 010101001 01010111 11010101 010100101 11011010 11111111 11010111 10011101 10110011 11110011 01010101 11100101 01010110 01011101 01111110 11010001 01111101 111100111 01010011 11010100 10010101 10010111 11110111 11110111 11010001 11110101 01011101 01000111 100101010 011001010 11010101 01010001 11011001 01000111 11010101 11010111 010101001 1010111 11010001 10100101 11010001 11110101 11011101 11011101 11011101 11010101 110111011 11011101 01001001 11010111 11111101 01110111 11010101 01000101 01010011 01010101 01010101 11010001 110111001 11010101 11010101 11011101 11011101 11011111 11110101 11100100 10010111 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3065
  • Average number of words per stanza: 547
  • Amount of lines: 270
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; of, and, he, his are repeated.

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

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

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