This is an analysis of the poem The Germ that begins with:
I took to khaki at a word,
And fashioned dreams of wonder. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacaac aXaXadaad efefghggh fbfbifiif hghgafaaX jkjklkllk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 1101010 11011101 1101110 11110101 0101010 01010101 11001111 0001010 11010111 11110100 11110101 01010100 11001101 1101111 01111111 11010100 1010111 11111111 0101010 11111101 1100010 11111111 1101010 11111001 01011111 0101010 11110101 1111010 01010101 1110010 10010001 0111010 11000101 11000101 1101010 01100101 1101111 10010111 1100011 11100101 1101010 11011111 11010001 1100100 10111101 0101110 11111101 1001010 11110001 1101110 010100111 11110101 1000010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Germ;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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