This is an analysis of the poem The Antique To The Northern Wanderer that begins with:
Thou hast crossed over torrents, and swung through wide-spreading ocean,--
Over the chain of the Alps dizzily bore thee the bridge,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101011111010 10010011001101 111110111010110 1010011101001 1101111011110110 11110011111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 381
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Antique To The Northern Wanderer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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