This is an analysis of the poem Ode On Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood that begins with:

The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abc b dededfbbf X ggefefhXh X ijJkkiliilbbXbmbb X nbmnXnaiiijjddfaaaeedd b ififXXddcobgbeejjbb b ajjdaaad X XggggekenneiikijjeXXXaa X bXljljeejpcpbpeebeeqqkeek X gpgpjjejeeggggXrXrjggbbiqiqrrbbbrbbrXff o ijJibbbeerrjjcbiihj b ggeebebbeabcapgpg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,1,9,1,9,1,17,1,22,1,19,1,8,1,23,1,25,1,39,1,19,1,17,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010001 11111100 11011100100 1 1101111111 011100101 0101 100000101 0101010001 0011101001 1100011 1111 011111111111 1 011111 110001 011001 110101011 1010101 110011 011001001 111110011 111101010001 1 1101110101 110111 100101 0101110101 01010011101 110111 01011110001 1111010101 1101010101 0110100101 110101 111 10110100 100101 110011101 1101 11111111110101 1 111011101 10110111 01010101101 11011100 1110100 010011111101 110101010 101010010 01110 1010110 11001 001010111 11010111 1011110101 11110111 11010101 0101111101 1001010101 010111 101101 1001010101 1001010101 1 11010110010 0111001111 1111010 110001 100101000 11010100 1101010111 011011 10101101100 1001010101 010101 1110011101 110001 0111010001 11010101 1101010 0101010 1101010101 1100010101 1 1101010001 10110011001 11001000101 110101 01011111 0101010111 01010111 11010010111 1 01010101110 0111000101 1111001111 10110001010 0101100101 1101110111 1100010101 110101011 01010100 01010100 101101 11001101 101101 0101010111 100101 100101 101111 0101010101 100101010010 0101010101 1110000100 1001010 0101010 1 11010010101 111000 1101001111 1100110101 11110100101 10110100101 11011 111111 1111011101 0101010001 1101110100 11010101001 0101010011 0101 010101010111 011011 0101110101 11011100001 01011011101 1011011101 00010010001 1100110011 1111110101 1101011001 1011111111 1 1110110 010111 1101010 111100 0101100111 01001010101 1110110001 0111000101 0111010111 01111100001 11111 010111 111100100 011101 1001100 10100010 1001011100 11001111010 0101010101 1111010 11001010 101111 1101010111 11010101110 01110111001 11001100010 0001010111 01010 11010011010 1111 1110110001 1100010101 100100110 111110 1111010101 11110 100101010 1101010101 110101010101 1 1111110101 110111 100101 1010111 1111111 1111101 1010001 11010011111 0111010011 110111010 0100010100010 1011101 1010101 0010100 11001100 00101101 1010100 0011111 0011010101 1 1111011111 01110100011 1011011111 1101010101 01011101001 1101111101 10111111011 01001000111 0101 0111010101 11010100011 11111010100 010110110111 1001011111 1001000111 01010101111 1111011111 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 8715
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1439
  • Amount of lines: 256
  • 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; i, your, of, hear, his, nor, sing, ye, that, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words , ye, my, and, a, are, nor, in, thanks are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).

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

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