This is an analysis of the poem Thoughts Suggested By A College Examination that begins with:
High in the midst, surrounded by his peers,
MAGNUS his ample front sublime up rears:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaa bbddbbeeXXbbcc ffaagghheebbddddXf ggbbffee bbiiaaeaffjjjjhhbbeebbii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,14,18,8,24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001010101 1001010111 1101011101 1111010101 1101110101 0101010101 01010010101 0101010101 1001010101 111010101 1101110111 1101000101 1111110101 1101010101 11010100101 1101010101 110010101010 11110101010 1111010101 1111010101 0101010101 01010100101 1001110101 1101010101 11001010001 00110011101 1111010011 0101010101 11111100010 110010111010 0101110101 1111110001 0101000101 1101011101 11000101001 0101000111 1111010111 0101010101 1101010011 0111110101 01111010101 1011011111 11110101001 1101101101 1111011101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101011101 1001010101 1111010111 01100011011 1101010111 1111010111 0101010101 1101010001 1101011101 1101110101 1111010111 11111100111 0101111001 1111010101 01011101010 10111101010 0101011101 1101001111 11011001001 10101011101 1101110101 1011010101 0111110101 01001010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 634
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; his, in, to, their, as, such are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, of, who, such 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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