This is an analysis of the poem Ode To Joy that begins with:

Wild and fearful in his cavern
Hid the naked troglodyte,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbaXbbcdacXXXdc cdccdcac XeXe XacXbfbfdf fXccbfaf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,4,10,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100010 1010100 10101110 1010011 10001110 0010101 101110010 11101011 00101010 1010101 10011010 0110100 10101110 1110101 11101010 0010001 00110010 1110101 10101110 100101010 110001010 1010101 10101010 10100001 111010100 1010111 11111010 0010101 11010100 0101010 000100110 010101 11010111 110101 11010101 010111 10010101 010101 11010101 111111 11111101 110111 01011101 010101 01010011 0111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

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  • summary of Ode To Joy;
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