This is an analysis of the poem To Victor Hugo that begins with:
IN the fair days when God
By man as godlike trod,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaabcc ddeffeee eegddgee eebgdbgd aaehheii eecjjckk bbiccill XXXeeecc bbjaajdd eekhhkee mmaccaii kXbeebee ddelllee aabaabdd cceeeecc aaebbeii nneddebb aafeefff llkbbkjj Xcboobii ffjnnjhh llaaaael leheehooXffcjjcaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001111 111101 1101110111 110111 0101001 1101010111 01011101 1101110111 101101 110101 1101010111 110111 110101 1011010111 11011111 0100010011 101100 110101 110011001110 110111 0100101 11010001010 11010111 0111000101 1100101 110101 1111010101 101100 110111 1101011101 1111000010 1011000101 111101 1000111 11010011010 101111 110101 11101101010 10110111 10011111011 1011111 0100111 1111111111 111101 110111 1111111111 11101101 1011010001 111101 111001 1001010101 111101 001101 1101000111 10111101 1001111111 1111001 1100111 01111111110 110111 01110101 0101010111 11110101 11001111101 111100 011111 1111110011 101101 111101 1101010111 11110111 1100101001001 110101 111101 0011010111 010111 101111 1111110111 10010111 1111011101 101111 111111 1101111101 111111 0101111 1101011101 01110111 11011110101 1101001 1100110 1101110111 0111111 111111 0101010101 11010111 0101010101 110101 1011111 1111010111 101101 0100101 1011110111 101100111 10010110011 111101 110111 01111110111 110111 1110101 110110101110 10111101 1101110101 110101 1101001 11111111101 110011 111101 0001011101 10110111 0100011111 1110111 110101 11110001010 1111111 110111 101111110010 101111111 1011111001 1101001 101101 0011111111 001111 110111 1001011101 101100100 1101010001 110111 0100101 1101010111 101101 1100111 1101110101 01001001 1100010001 101101 100101 1111110101 111111 110111 010000101001 11110001 1101010001 110111 0100101 0111110111 011111 110101 1011010101 111111101 1110111101 111111 111001 1101110111 111111 100111 1110100001 10110011 1111010001 111001 011101 111111100111 111111 111101 1111000101 10110101 1011111111 111110 111110 0100010011 1101000 111101 11110111011 1101001001 1101010101 101101 110101 1101011001 1101011 011111 11011110101 11111111 1101101001
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 192
- 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; their, and, as, with, or, we, all, of, thou, bade, be, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, mixed, or, i, o, the, we, bade, nor are repeated.
The author used the same word not at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase hours connects the lines.
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