This is an analysis of the poem Fleeing Away that begins with:
My thoughts soar not as they ought to soar,
Higher and higher on soul-lent wings; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbb ccccdd efefccXdfdfcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111111101 101101111 1101101111 1111101101 110101101 10110100101 1100110100 101110111 1110100111 101100101 01101011 1100100101 110101101 1001001001 111101101 00111011001 10111111111 11011011001 111010111 010100111 11100111 101110101 110100101 0010111100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Fleeing Away;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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