This is an analysis of the poem The Titans In Tartarus that begins with:

Low in the far-flung shadow of the world,
Under the moveless stretch of glooms great-wing'd...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcdaXefggXdcghicXbbbjaibdbkiibbXbi bXjgehblmgbgkjgaXd camfXcflXdcXggibjh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,18,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001111001 10010010111 110011100101 1101010111 0101111101 1001010101 010010101001 01110000111 1101000101 0101010101 11010100110 01010100101 11010101001 0100010111 1011110101 1101011100 1101010100 0001011100 0101011000 0111010111 1001010001 01001110101 0011010101 1011010101 10010111010 11110101011 1100110100 0101000101 10110101101 1111111101 11010100101 0101010101 0111010011 01010011101 10010101001 11111101 01 0100110101 0001011101 1101110101 1001110011 0100011100 0101010101 0100011001 1101011101 01010010101 01001010100 110010010101 1011011101 10100010101 1101010101 1011000101 0101000101 1101010101 1001100001 1101001101 0111011100 0101011111 0011110101 1101100111 1011011011 1011011111 11100011101 1101011100 1101011101 1111011000 101010100 0101010101 1001100100 0101010100 1101010001 0110010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1005
  • Average number of words per stanza: 165
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; of, and are repeated.

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

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