This is an analysis of the poem The Fellowship Of Genius that begins with:

O hearts of flesh! O beating hearts of love!
O twining hands of human dear desire!—... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcXeedfggbbhheeiiXXjjkkllaXXXffmmdf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110101 11010101010 11110010101 11110111010 11111001001 1101010001 1011110111 1111011000 1011111101 0111010001 1001110101 1001000100 0111011101 0101110101 11011101110 11011101010 1011110101 0101010101 01010010010 10111111010 11110101010 110101010110 1111001101 1011011111 11011100101 1001001001 1011111101 0011000101 1001010101 1101101111 1101010101 1101101101 11010110001 11010111010 0101111100 1101000100 1011010001 110001010111 10011011001 0011010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1722
  • Average number of words per stanza: 312
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; of, o, and, in, his, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, how, that are repeated.

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

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