This is an analysis of the poem The Lost Poem that begins with:
Flushed with fancies, I bethought me,
'Into music I will set them,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccbdX aeXXeda afggfXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101101 10101010 10100010 00101010 10101010 01111110100 0111101010101 111110101 101001010 10101010 10101010 11111110 01111010100 11011100110101 11111011 11111010 10101010 11101010 11111010 10111011100 1010111010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, was, proud, not are repeated.
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- summary of The Lost Poem;
- central theme;
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- history of its creation;
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