This is an analysis of the poem Fragments From 'Genius Lost' that begins with:

Prelude
I SEE the boy-bard neath life’s morning skies,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbc dada ebfb bgXg abab eheh icic hjhj adXdbbXb fkfk lala manomipoggkmncaaqbc pacofgaaf jfgfab gbgagbfcobaadam mf klklbbbb Boccokkff hadbnfbgchlcncakdagcXpabaabcqcb aalhlHccphpH regegelil eseselil BXhrrallal Xjljaacbcbccbcbbc aohachchbfXokcok
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,19,9,6,15,2,8,9,31,12,9,8,10,17,16,14,15,11,39,11,5,10,8,5,10,34,20,20,14,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11 1101111101 1111011001 1101000101 110101010101 1001000101 11011100101 1001011101 010101010101 01110101010 1101110101 1101001001 010101001101 1111010101 1111010101 1101010110 0100111000101 1101110101 0101001111 1011011101 110101110101 110010100010 1111010101 11110101110 111001010001 1111111101 0101001101 1101111101 1101001110101 1101011101 1111110001 10110110111 011111110111 11100101001 1011110001 1101010101 111101110100 1111000101 1111010101 10010011110 010001110001 1110111001 11001010101 1101111111 1110111101 11110010101 1101000101 11110010001 111001100101 11 110101 1101000101 1101010111 1011010101 0111000101 10010000101 0100010011 1101010101 11111011 1001010001 01001101101 1100110001 1101110101 10010110101 1101010011 11001011101 1100010011 1101000101 1111000101 1100011111 11001101001 1101010101 0100011001 1101110001 1001110111 0110000101 00101001 0111 11010001101 1011000101 11010000111 1011010101 010101 1101 01010110101 1101010011 1101000101 0100010111 1011010001 1110011101 1101111101 0111010101 1011011101 1011110101 0101010101 0101010101 1101000101 1100101 1111 0101110011 111100011 11000111 10010111 0101 11011001 01010101 11110101 1101 100010 111 1101010101 0101010101 110101 0100011111 1011000110 1100010001 011100100101 1001001111 11001000101 11000100111 1101101101 1101100101 1101100101 1101011101 1001110111 1101010101 1111110011 10110101011 11110011101 10010011001 1111001001 0101010101 1101000101 1101010101 0101011101 1101111101 0111000101 11010101110 1011010101 0001000101 1001010101 1001010101 0101010111 110000110101 1101010001 11011101001 1101010101 11010010101 1011010101 0101111101 1111110101 0101101101 1101111111 10001 0101010011 0111010001 1111111101 10001010101 1110000111 10001 100 10101110 1011101 11111010 1010101 10111110 10101 10111110 10011 10111010 1011101 11111110 1010101 10111110 10101 10111110 00111 100010 01010101 010011 110100 10100 01110101001 1111010001 010011 11001001 010101110111 11110110 110101 110010101 110101 11110101 0011101 011100111 0011001001 100100101 1001100101 1101010101 01010001 111101 1110110101 11110 11010 11010000101 1001 1001001111 01110110101 0101010101 110101101 01000101011 1101010101 0100100111 10101110101 0110010001 0101101010 0111010001 01010101001 1001000101 1110111101 1101110 111 11111010101 1101111101 11001111101 10111101001 1101010011 1101011101 0111000111 100101101 11010101001 11001101001 1101111111 0101011101 0101 111101 1011011101 0111011101 0011000111 0101110111 1101010101 011000111010 0101000101 0101010011 1011110100 1101010101 0101010101 0101110111 0111110101 11011010101 0100111101 1111110011 1001110101 1101110101 1111010101 1001010101 1101100101 0111011001 01001011001 0101110101 11010 1011011101 1100010101 1101010101 01001000101 0111110111 0101010101 001010101010 1111000101 1011011011 0101010001 1101010101 0111011101 1101010101 0101011101 10101100110 1001011111 10010111010 11010101010 0011101100 0101001001 1011010 111 0101010101 0101001011 0011011101 1101100111 0011100101 01010101010 1101010111 0101111111 1101010100 100110010101 01010110101 0101000101 01010100001 1101000101 0101000111 11001001101 0101010101 11111101011 1101001111 0101111101 11001110001 01110010111 1101101001 1101010101 10011001010 0101010001 11110010001 1110010 111 0111010101 0001001111 11001100101 1011 100010 11010101 0101010011 0101111101 1110111101 0101000101 0011000101 010101 1101000101 1111010101 101110101 0011010101 1101110100 1111110101 11110010100 101101 1111011101 1011001001 1011110101 0101011111 1111010101 111101 0101011100101 11100101 1101010001 1101000101 010101 01110010101 11010101 10011010101 1101010101 01010001001 110001 111 01010100111 1101000111 1001000101 01110011111 0101111011 11010100101 0111000101 1101011111 0101010001 0101000101 0101011101 1101011101 0101001100 0101010101 0100010101 1100011111 0101010111 0101010111 10111001100 1101010001 11010111010 11010110101 1001010111 10101010111 0111010101 0101010101 110100010011 1111010101 01010100100 01001010111 11000010101 1101100011 11111 1111 1011110001 1101001101 0100011101 1101000101 0101010011 1001010101 01010110101 1101110001 1101001001 0101000101 1101000100 1001010111 0101010101 0101010101 10011101101 1001011111 1101001101 1100110101 111101 01010 1101 00110001010 0110110101 01110001110 0101010101 1101110100 11010101001 11111110111 1001010101 1001111001 11010100001 11001010111 1111001111 11010100101 01010111101 0101001000 11010100101 0111110111 11001001101 10 0111110111 0101010001 1111010101 11000010111 1011011101 1111001101 01000010101 11001110011 1010011111 1101011111 0111011111 1111110111 0110110101 0011101 1011111 111 11010011 1101 01010101 11011101 11010001 11110110 0111 111111001 11110101 1011 100011111 10111111 0101
  • Amount of stanzas: 41
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 440
  • Average number of words per stanza: 78
  • Amount of lines: 466
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; his, and, in, no, more, to, her, as, beating, at, my, flying, o, er, they, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, no, as, beating, flying, to, of, the, so are repeated.

    The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word brow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases scorn, tears connect the lines.

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