This is an analysis of the poem Talent And Genius that begins with:

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ON the high road travelling steady,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaabbcXddccbbeXXeeXXeeddeeccff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 101110010 10111010 10111010 101011110 11101110 00100100 1010010010 10101010 01101010 11101110 100001110 00101010 10101110 1101100 1 111101010111 11110111111 11010100100 10110110110 10010011010 011010110010 10010011010 100110111010 10010011010 10010110010 10010010110 10010010010 10011111011 100110110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1108
  • Average number of words per stanza: 180
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; by, and are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).

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  • summary of Talent And Genius;
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