This is an analysis of the poem Science that begins with:
Darkness sat brooding o'er the infant world,
That in chaotic gloom and silence lay,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcc dbdbbebeX cfcgfffff aaaaaaaaa dbdbbhbhh ididdhdhX babaabXbbXiiiiifigf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,19,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10110100101 1001011101 1001010111 1101011101 1010010101 10011010101 0111010101 0111110101 100101101101 101110111001 1011010001 0101000101 11111010101 0100011111 0111011111 010000011001 0111110101 1111010101000 10110111001 1111010101 110010100101 01010111010 01000101001 110010000011 11001000111 1011011101 1100101110101 1101000101 1101111111 01011100101 1101011101 1101000101 110100100101 1111011111 1111011101 0101001110101 110100011001 11110100101 1001000111 0101001101 10011110101 11010001010 11011001101 10010101110 11100101010010 1001011101 0101010101 11110011001 1011011101 01010101001 1111010101 1101111111 01011001110 100001010010 11110110011 0101111101 0111110101 11110100111 0101010101 01001010101 110101000100 1111010101 011101110101 1111011101 1111011100 1111011101 110101011 0101010101 1101110101 1101010100 11010101010 110101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 423
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, he, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words is, the, thou, and are repeated.
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- summary of Science;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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