This is an analysis of the poem Genius And Love that begins with:

Genius and Love together stood
At break of day beside clear fountains,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abababaXcdcdefefbbXgXaXbbddeehgffeeeghiiXXaaiiddbX XgaaaggXdXXeeddddjjbbkk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 50,23,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 10110101 110101110 01010101 110101010 11011101 110100110 11011111 111111100 11111101 1101110010 11011101 01001001010 10110011 110100110 11111101 01011010 11010101 10000101 11111111 11110001 11110101 11011011 11111101 11000101 0100101001 11010101 11111101 11011111 10010001 110111000 00110001 111101010 011101110 01011101 11010101 10010101 11110011 110111100 10010101 11011111 11110101 11011110 11110101 11010101 11010001 100101011 001101010 111100010 111101010 011101010 11011000 11000111 11110101 10110111 11110101 11111001 11100101 101100101 11111101 110101001 01011101 11111101 11010111 100101001 010110111 111010101 11011101 11010101 01011111 110001001 01010001 11000101 11011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1324
  • Average number of words per stanza: 244
  • Amount of lines: 73
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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