This is an analysis of the poem Prometheus that begins with:
Titan! to whose immortal eyes
The sufferings of mortality,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaccddeecffX dggdhhhhfbgfiifgccXj jcXjfbchXhdcdcfbccaacXcfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,20,25,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101 010000100 10110100 01111101 11110101 010100101 01010101 11011101 01001111 01010101 11100100 11010101 110100101 01010100 100101110 010100100 11011101 101100010 10110001 01010001 11010101 01010101 011100101 01010100 11111101 110100101 11010111 11011011 01111101 11100111 101101010 100101010 110111100 100101010 11011001 01001111 01010100 11010011 11011101 10110100 00100101 010100010 111101110 010101010 11010101 01001111 11100101 01010011 11010101 01100100 010010010 101100010 01010101 01110011 10101011 110010110 011000101 01010101 11010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 714
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, his are repeated.
The author used the same word titan at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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