This is an analysis of the poem The Complaint Of The Goddess Of The Glaciers To Doctor Darwin that begins with:

WHILE o'er the Alpine cliffs I musing stray'd,
And gaz'd on nature, in her charms severe,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eXec fgfg aXaX fgfg hbhX Xdfd cfcf ijij kXkX jfjf fdXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11001111101 1111000101 0111010101 0101010101 01010100111 10010010111 11010101001 0111010101 1111010101 0101010110 1101010101 1011000101 1001111101 01011010101 0101010101 01001010101 1111010101 11110110001 11101101011 10110111010 11010011101 1101110101 1101010001 1111010101 1101000101 1011110101 01010111001 1101000101 1111110110 0101010101 1101110101 11101000101 1100110101 01010110101 1111111101 0011010101 1111110101 11011010101 10110011101 1101010101 1111010111 0101100101 1101010101 1101010110 1111010111 1101110010 0101010101 01110111010 1111110111 1101011101 11111111011 1111000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; her, to, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, her are repeated.

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

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  • summary of The Complaint Of The Goddess Of The Glaciers To Doctor Darwin;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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