This is an analysis of the poem To Beauty that begins with:

A Fragment
Beauty, whose all-potential hand...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bXXbXcaaccaXXaXabbdaad
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,22,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010 10110101 0101001101 1111100 11110101 111000 101101111001 1101010101 010011 1101010001 101000 100111 100101100 001010101 110101 01010100 111101 111101 010101 1101110101 1111 0101001 0100010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 357
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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