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

How gracefully, O man, with thy palm-bough,
Upon the waning century standest thou,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabccbddeffe gccccegeghchcijijkhkh hchchchc leleffffbcbc lclXclclhchc hchcelelkcXc hchcfXfglXllh eXecmmhhcbbc cfcfgcecellel egccglcclhehe hbbhcjXjnn cecghhcccegc ococccaeaefnnf blbXbnXnfekkee kpkphahahqhqigieXk bhhbhcchhgccg mqmqijijll qhqhfdXdcccccckckbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,21,8,12,12,12,13,12,13,13,10,12,14,14,18,13,10,21,13,12,22,27,13,22,12,34,22,14,10,7,8,24,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1100110111 01010100101 01110101 0011000101 0101110101 010101 11011111 11011111 1011011101 1001011101 1111010101 1001010101 10010100 10010101 11010101 01011101 11010101 1111010101 1101110100 1011010101 1111110100 1111011101 1101010101 1101010101 0101110101 1001111011 100010101001 11110001000 1010000101 0100010111 0101010101 0101110111 11110111 10110101 11010101 010011001 01010101 111101001 11010101 110010011 10010101 1111110101 11001001101 01000111101 0101110101 0111110101 01011111010 0101010101 11010111010 01100011 10010101 11010001 11011101 1000010101 110100101 0101110111 11010101010 11010101 01000101 010010101 11110101 1001010101 1101110101 1111011111 1111010111 1001010001 1101100001 1101010101 10110101001 1101010101 10010001 1101001101 00010101 01011101 0101010101 11010111 01001010101 1101001111 010101010 11111101001 110111010 0111010101 1101001100 0101110101 1001100100 1100110101 11001111110 0100011101 1011110101 1001010101 0100110101 1001011100 1101010101 0111110001 11010101010 01010101010 1101001101 1111010101 00110101 11010111 10010101 11011101 1001010101 11001010001 0101001101 10011111101 01010100100 1001010101 1001110 01011100101 1101010011 0100010101 1011010111 1101010101 10100101 11010100101 11011100 01010101 11111001 01110100 0111011001 1101010101 1100010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101011111 0101010101 0101011001 00110101 01010101 110001001 010000101 010101011010 1101110001 01010101110 1100010101 0101110101 1011010101 11010101 01110101 01010101 0100111100 01010101 01110101 0101001101 0101011101 01000100010 0101010111 0111011100 01011101010 010101101 00010001101 1011010101 00010101001 1001110111 0101011101 0101010101 1100110011 1001010101 1101000101 0101001001 1001010101 0100010111 0101110101 010010011 0101101 1000010101 1001001110 01011101 01011101 1001010101 1101010111 10001011101 10110111 110011101 11010001 11011101 11110111 11010111 010101001 111000101 00010111 11010011111 0100110101 1001010101 01010011101 10010101 11010101 01010111 10010101 01011101 01010100 01000101 11010011 10010101010 1101010101 10010001 111100101 11010101 1100101 11010111 01010101 001100111 10010001 10110101 00110100 01010101 010111011 01010100 01010101010 0101010101 11010100110 10010010101 110101110 10100111 110100010 110010101 01010101001 1111110101 01011111 010100101 10110111 01011101 11010011 11011101 10110101 01010101 10010101 11010101 10110101 01010111 11001010101 110011010001 01010001 11000101 00010101 1001110101 1100110101 10110100 10110111 10110111 01011101 10010101 1101110101 1011010101 11110101 00100101 11010111 01011101 0101010111 1101010101 0111010101 11110100101 1101010101 0101010101 0100010111 11000100 11011001001 0101010101 0101100111 000110101 01010100001 0011011101 01000110101 00010010001 0101110011 0101111101 1101010101 1100010101 01011101010 0101101001 11010101100 1101010101 010001101100 0101010101 1011010001 01011101010 10110101010 1101010111 1101011101 10001011101 10010111001 1111010101 01011101 11010100 10111100 11010100 01110111 01010101 110101010 01010111 01010100 01101111 010100101 01010101 11010101 11010101 11010111 010011101 11010101 01010101 10110101010 1001001111 01011011010 0110011101 01010001001 1101010101 1001011100 0101010101 1001010001 11011101010 0101010101 01110110010 0011010001 100010010100 1001011101 0101010111 1111011101 11001010101 1101010101 1101010111 1001000111 1111010110 11011101 10010101 01010101 10010101 010100101 1101000101 1101010101 01110101 110101010011 1101010110001 11010100 110010101 010101010 010010101 111101110 10100111 01011111 01010001 010110001 10110111 01010111 01011101 10001101 01010101 11011111 11110101 11010101 0101010101 01111111 11011101 11010001 10011101 11000111 010101110 11100100 110001101 11010101 100111110 11110100101 0101010111 0101011001 1011010101 0100010101 0101010101 1110011111 1010010101 1001010101 0110000101 1101010101 0101010001 1001010101 1001110101 1101010101 11010100111 01010100 01010101 10010100 01010111 01010111010 0101010101 11010101010 1101010101 0101001001 100101001 100110101 11010101 011101101 10100101 0101001011 11010101 01010101 01010101 010101110001 0111010101 0101010101 1001010010001 1101010111 0101010101 1001011101 1101010111 01010111 1101110101 1101010101 0101010101 0101010101 0101010101 11000101 1100010101 0101110101 01010010100 0101010101 011000111 1101100101 1101011010 0101010101 0100010101 0101010111 0101010011 01010111 010101010101 1011011101 11001101010 11010111010 1101011101 1101101101 1111010101 0101101101 1101000101 0101010 010101001 11010111 0111100 01010111 01011101 11010101 10010111 1011110101 0110001101001 1100010011 11010100 0101010001 1010100 01011110 01010101 01010100 10111001 11010101 110101010 010100010 1001010100 11110101 1101010100 101001 01010101 01110011 01010100 110010101 01010111 01110111 11010101 10010101 11011101 01100101 11011101 01010001 11010101 01010100 01010111 01010100 100101111 01010101 111101011 01010111 01010011 110101001 00110111 11011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 32
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 591
  • Average number of words per stanza: 99
  • Amount of lines: 481
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; with, through, thy, and, in, her, where, his, that, he, of, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words through, and, in, when, with, no, the, behold, that, wherever, where, who, before, twice, to are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Artists;
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  • history of its creation;
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