This is an analysis of the poem Daphne that begins with:

Musing on the fate of Daphne,
Many feelings urged my breast,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcX adcd aebe efcf gbhb ifXf ajhj Xkkk ceee ejhj bbkb efcf Xlel ahjh Xfif kiXi Xiki bkmk kfcf nkkk eoho kpjp eece ceke hbeb hfXf fjkj jjqj jmom Xbeb eqeq hmkm jkbk adod clhl frer fjaj XoXo okek Xdbd ajej Xheh kbcb aeee okjk ekck eoeo Xeae eehe ajkj kebe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010 1010111 101110100 1011110 10111010 1010101 10101010 1010101 10111110 1110101 11101110 1010101 10001010 1000101 10101110 00110101 10101010 0010001 00111010 1010101 10111010 100100101 1010101 101011 100101010 1010101 00101110 1011101 1010110 10101001 100010011 10101101 100101010 10101001 00101010 1000101 10101010 1010101 10111010 1010101 111110011 1010101 10001001 0010101 11101010 1111111 10101010 1010101 10101010 1010001 10101110 1011101 11110010 10101010 1011010 10101010 1010011000 10101001 10101010 1000101 101110010 1011101 1010100100 1010101 10101010 10111001 100010100 1010101 10001010 10000101 101010011 1010101 1000100010 1010101 00101110 1100101 101010010 11101001 101010100 1010101 10111011 1110001 10101110 1010111 10111110 1011101 10101010 1011111 10101010 0010101 10101010 1010101 10100010 10101001 10101010 0010101 10001010 10010101 10111111 10100111 10101010 1010101 10101010 1010101 10011010 0010101 10001010 1110101 10101010 1000111 11101010 100101 100101010 0010101 10001010 1010111 100010100 1110101 10111010 10010101 10001010 1010111 10001010 1010101 10101010 0110101 00101010 1000101 111010010 1010111 10100010 1010001 11101010 11100101 10101011 0010101 101011010 10100101 10101010 0010101 10101010 1110101 10101010 1010101 11111010 1111010 10011010 1110001 11111010 1010111 10111010 1010101 111011010 1000100 10100010 1010001 11111110 1010011 10111010 0010101 10101110 10010001 10101010 1010001 100010010 10101010 101010110 10001010 10101010 1010101 101010010 10000101 11101010 1010101 10101110 1011101 10111010 1010101 10111010 1110101 10111010 1011101 10101110 1010111 10101010 10100001 110010110 10100101 1110010100 1110101 10101010 1000101 10101010 10010101 10101010 00101001 11101110 1110001 10111010 0110101 111010100 1011101 10101110 10111001 100001010 1011111 111010 1010101 10111010 1110111 10001010 1011101 10111010 1010101 101101010 01100101 10101010 1001101 10101010 1010101 11111010 1101101 10101010 1011101 1001010010 1011111 10101000 1000101 10011010 1010101 100101010 1000111 10111110 1010101 101010010 01011101 10101010 1011111 10101010 1010001 10101010 1011101 1011110 0010001 11101110 1011101 10101010 10101001 10101010 0011010 101001110 1011101 00101010 1011110 000010010 1011101 10101010 00111010 10101010 1110111 1011010010 1011111 10101000 1000101 10101110 1110001 10101110 1110001 10111010 100100111 10110010 0010111 101010010 1011101 10101010 1111111 10111010 10010101 10101011 10100101 10101010 00101011 10111010 1010101 11100010 1010101 10101110 1010111 00100010 111111 11111110 1011101 100101010 1110101 10101010 1010101 11101010 1001101 10101110 10100101 1001010010 1010101 11101100 1010101 100101010 10010101 101110010 10110111 11111110 1010101 111011100 1010101 100011110 1110101 00111010 1001101 10101010 1110101 11101111 1010101 10101010 11100111 10101110 1010101 101010010 1011001 101010100 0010111 101010010 1001111 10101110 1110101 101011100 1011111 101010010 11100101 10001010 0010101 101010010 0010101 100010010 1010101 111010010 10000101 10101010 1110001 111001010 1110101 101001000 1110101 10111010 10100101 11101110 1110111 11101110 1011101 11111010 1001101 10101111 1000101 10101110 1010101 10101010 1011101 0010100100 1000101 11101010 10011011 11111110 10001001 10111010 1001101 10101010 10001001 100111100 0011101 11101010 11101001 10101010 1010101 10101001 1010101 10111110 1010111 11111111 10111001 11101110 1111011 111010110 1000101 10101010 1110101 111010110 1000101 11001010 1110111 10101110 0011111 10101110 00111101 10101010 10001001 11111110 0111101 00101110 1111101 11111010 10111001 10111010 1010101 10100010 1111101 10101010 1010101 10101010 1110111 11101110 1010111 10101010 0010101 10011011 1010101 10101010 01000101 1101110 0100101 10101010 1010100 10001110 1000101 10101010 1000101 1010101 1010101 11101110 1010111 11101010 1010111 10111010 1011101 10101001 1010101 10101010 10000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 111
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 444
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; those, his, its, her, with, and, of, over, many, fled, o, that, now, would, laurel are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words those, and, like, all, yearning, icy, over, many, round, fled, o are repeated.

    The author used the same words there, and, o, see at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases down, falters, go, sympathies, laurel connect the lines.

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  • summary of Daphne;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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