This is an analysis of the poem Genie that begins with:

He is love and the present because he has opened our house
to winter's foam and to the sound of summer, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdebcafbgdddbcddecXfggdhfahdaXbidaXXiecXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 43,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101100101111011 01011001010 11101111111 100101010 001001011101 100101010 011111 100101101100 1100011110100100 101011001010 101001101 0100010110001000100 1110100010101 101011101001100 1001011011111010 110101111101 101010011010101 10011011010 11011001 1111100101101 011101011 10101001001010 101001101001 110110111000101 101001001111 1001001001011 010001011000101010 01110100100010101100 1010101 11010001101101110 010011101100 10001010110 00111100101010100 1111011010011001 11101010110 111111111 11010101010110101 00101001 0101000101 01010111110010 011101110101 1010111011001 01001001001001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2210
  • Average number of words per stanza: 397
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and, of, these, his, all, to, from are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and, oh, from are repeated.

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  • summary of Genie;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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