This is an analysis of the poem The Visionary that begins with:

Silent is the house: all are laid asleep:
One alone looks out o’er the snow-wreaths deep, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb cccc ddee ccff ccfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1000111101 1011110111 101001101001 1101001110101 1000110101 11100111111 010111011111 1101000100101 11101011101 1110110101 1101011110111 110101110101 11111110001 101010010101 11111011101 11101111101 1110110111 1010111001 11111110101 1101111111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of The Visionary;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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