This is an analysis of the poem To A Derelict that begins with:
O travelled far beyond unhappiness
Into a dreadful peace!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdcccdbceee ffggeefefehfieeihaaeaeXcXbecXjfjbeebbfbbb eigXbbbbbbbbagagbicic
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,41,21,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010100 000101 110110101 0101000101 010101001010 101101 110101 01010101001 110010 1101010001 1111100101 10111110111 1100111 111100 111001 111111 110101 110101 1111111111 1011110101 110101 0001001 11110101 111101001 0101011111 010101 11010101 0101 1101000101 0101010001 011111 1100101 011101 1011100101 1101010100 110101001001 101100 0111011111 110111 1111011101 11011101 1111010001 1011111100 1011011101 011101101 0101011100 10001010101 0101101101 011101 1111100001 000101 0111101101 1011 110101 1101010111 1111110101 1101 0101010101 0010101010 1101010011 0011011101 1011 100101 0111011101 111101111 110101 01010001 1101010100 11010100111 010001 1101011101 0111111101 11010110101 01110101 101001 1001010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 885
- Average number of words per stanza: 157
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; with, and, thou, to, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to are repeated.
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