This is an analysis of the poem Tale Ix that begins with:

EDWARD SHORE.
Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou light divine!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbccbbddbbeeffgghhhhiiddjjeekki aahhddkkhhccaaXhhhhhlXhhffllbbXgllhhbbhXX XcgXh aaXjhhdXmmjjmmgghhkkeehhj bbhhddffhhjjhheehhhhjjhhccllllggkkkhhhhmmbblljjhhbbeejjnnddjjm aahhjjjjaammbbhhjjffeeggccllggjXllmmhhnnjjhhhhbbjjhhhhbbaahhhhbbllnnhXbbhhccjjhhbbhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,31,41,5,25,62,109,25,6,19,5,30,122,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 101 1011011101 0111011101 1001010111 1111010111 11001011001 1101000101 1111001101 1101010101 0111011101 11010000101 1011010101 1101110011 1101001101 10010001001 1101010111 1111110011 1001011101 0111011101 1101010111 0011101001 01010101001 1111010101 1101001101 0101110101 1111011101 0101010001 01010110101 10101110101 1011010101 1101110101 1101110100 1 1101010101 0111010101 1101010101 0101010111 11010101001 1101010111 1101011111 1011010101 1001110001 1101010001 1001010011 1101011011 1111010101 1101010110 0101110101 11100100101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101011111 11110101010 0101010101 100101110001 1101010111 1101110101 1101111101 1101010101 1010111111 1011000001 1101111101 1011011101 0100110101 1101110111 11011000101 010101101001 1101011101 1111011001 0101011111 01010110101 1110011011 10 01011101001 0101010110 00111100001 111101111 1 1111011111 1101111110 11010011101 1001010101 1011010101 1101111101 11110101010 1111010101 1101011101 1001010101 1101010101 1001010101 1101000101 1001110101 00111101001 1001111101 1001000101 1101010101 11110100101 0111111101 1111010111 1110111101 11001000101 0111110011 1 1011001001 1011010101 1111110101 1101011101 1101010111 111100100101 1101011101 1101010101 11011010101 1101001101 1111010101 01001010111 110010001101 0111010111 1101011101 1011111101 1101010101 1111000101 11001010101 11010110101 1111111111 1101010101 1101011101 1101010101 01110101001 11010101001 1101011101 1111010101 101001001101 1011010101 1101011101 1001010101 1111110101 110101010101 0011100101 0101010101 1101010001 1101010001 11110101001 01110101001 11110100101 1101101101 1101010111 1110010101 11011101001 11010010101 1101110111 11010101001 1101110101 1001010101 1011110111 01011110101 01001111001 0101110101 0111010101 1101010101 0111010101 1101000111 1111110101 01110101001 1001010101 1 1101110101 1111011101 0101010101 01001110101 1101010101 1101011101 0111110101 1011010101 1101010101 1101110101 1101010111 01010100111 0101010101 10110011101 1001010011 01100111101 1111010101 0101110101 1101010101 0101010100 1101110111 0101100101 0011010010 0101010101 1011110010 10010101001 11110000111 0101000101 11010111111 1101010101 1101111101 1101011101 1011010101 1011010101 1001010101 1101100101 1101110101 11110111001 0101110001 0101111101 1101010111 0101010101 0111110001 1111010101 1101110100 0111010101 1101010101 1111011101 1111000110 1100010101 1101101101 01110101001 0111010111 1100011101 1101010101 11011000101 1101110101 1110000101 110100101001 0101000111 1111010101 1101000101 0101110101 1111011111 1011010101 1011011101 1111011101 1001010101 01001110001 0101111011 1101100101 0101010111 1101010101 1101111101 10110101001 1011100101 1111011101 0101110101 0101010101 1111110111 1110110101 1111010111 0101010101 1101010111 01010101001 1101010101 1001010101 0101110101 1101110101 1001011101 11010101001 1111010001 0101110101 0101010101 0101010101 1101011111 0101010101 1101000101 1101000101 1101010101 1101011101 1101110111 101011110101 0101011011 1011010111 1101110101 0111110101 11001111110 1 1101111101 1101010101 0101010101 1111110001 11010010101 1011110101 1111110101 1101110101 1101110111 1101011001 1101110101 11011100111 1000011101 0101110101 0111010101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010101 1001011101 0101000101 1111010101 0111010101 01010101010 11110111010 10 0101011111 1101110101 11010100101 1011011101 11111101 11 1101011011 1111010101 1111000111 1101011101 1111010101 11010100111 1101110001 1001011001 1101011111 1101110011 1011010101 0101010101 1011010101 1101110101 1100010001 0111110101 1101110101 11101101 01 1101010101 1100010101 1101010101 01110111011 0 1111110111 0101110101 1111010101 0111010001 1101111101 0101011100 1101010101 11010010001 1111010111 10011101000 1001011101 1111010101 1101101101 1011010101 1111011001 1101010001 1111011101 1011110101 1111010101 01010010101 01011100101 0011010101 10010010101 01001010101 0111110101 1111011101 1011010111 1101010111 01010111010 1 1111001101 1101010101 1101110001 1101100101 1011100101 0111110101 111000001001 1111010101 1000111101 1111000101 1101011010001 01111101001 0101011111 1011011101 1111110001 01001001101 1111011110 1001000101 1111010101 0111010101 1111010111 1011011101 1101000101 1101111101 01001100101 1111010001 10011100111 0101011101 1111111101 1101010111 1001010101 0111011101 0101010101 1111000111 1101010101 01011101001 0101010101 0111010101 1001010101 1111111001 1101011101 1001110101 0111000101 1111110101 1101011101 1101010101 11010100101 0101110001 1011010011 1101000111 0101010101 1111110001 0101010101 1011010101 1111010101 1101010111 1111000100 0101010001 1101111101 0111110101 1111111101 1101100101 1101010101 0101010101 0101010101 1111000101 1101111101 1101100111 01010100101 1111010111 01011101000 0101111101 0101100101 1111010101 1111010101 1101010101 0111001001 01010101001 1011101101 1101010101 1111010001 0101110101 11001010101 10111010111 0101010101 1101010101 0011000101 1101010101 0101011110 0111000111 0101110101 1101011111 0110010101 0101000111 1000110101 0111010111 1011010101 1101110111 0101010101 1011010111 0101011100 11110010101 0101110001 110110100101 0101110101 1011011101 0001010101 1110011101 1111010101 10011110011 0101100101 0101100101 010111111 1 1011010101 0101010101 1111111101 01110010101 1011110111 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1486
  • Average number of words per stanza: 264
  • Amount of lines: 480
  • 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; thou, thy, and, her, to, his, in, it, ', their, he, still, of, she, had, our, by, from are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words oft, nor, still, he, the, his, of, no, now, from, speaks are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase speaks connects the lines.

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