This is an analysis of the poem The Spirit Of The Age that begins with:
A wondrous light is filling the air,
And rimming the clouds of the old despair;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcddddeeffgghhiihhhhjjhhkkXlmmffddnnggllookknnkkjjggpphhaabc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 62,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010101001 1100100101 11011101 11001100 010100111 111100101 010101001 11010101 010100101 0100101001 10111101 101011101 10010111 01000101 11110101 110000101 11110111 111100101 10100100101 1011110101 1010110101 10101001001 1011110101 101111100101 010111010110 01010010010 101100101 10101110111 010010100 010101001 01011011001 10110100011 010111111 0010101101 110111011 0010000101 1011001001 1110101111 11110111 10110001 010101101 11110011 10101001001 111100111 11001001001 11000100101 010110101 10010001 111100111 11011101 110010111 10010111 11011001 1110110101 11101101 010011101 101100101 10011101 101101101 10100100101 1010010111 010011100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2402
- Average number of words per stanza: 423
- Amount of lines: 62
- 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; and, his, little are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, or, the, that are repeated.
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