This is an analysis of the poem The Destroying Spirit that begins with:
I sit upon the rocks that frown
Above the rapid Nile; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a b a b b b c d c d e e a f a f g g a a g g h h g g i X j j b b f f i k i k h h j j k f kXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 010101 11010111 0101101 11110100 110111001 10110111 10100101 01111101 1111101 1111011010 1101010110 110101101 110111 1101101111 1011001 010101101 1100101001 101011101 110101001 10101111 1101001011 11100101 011011011011 110101101 101100101 11010101 11111101100 100101011 1110110111 0100101011 0010101101 0001101011 010100001 11101111 011101 1111100101 11100101 11101001001 101011101 111101101 10101011111 111101111 1110101 1010100101 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 46
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 36
- Average number of words per stanza: 7
- Amount of lines: 54
- 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; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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