This is an analysis of the poem Prometheus, Or, The Poet's Forethought. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First) that begins with:

Of Prometheus, how undaunted
On Olympus' shining bastions... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaab cbccb dcddc aXaae XdXbd dedde bXfXa gegge faffa cdccd dXXdc cecce Xhaah
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01001010 11001010 00101110 11111110 10101010 10000010 011110010 01101010 00110010 001000010 10101010 101001010 101001010 10100010 10111010 10101010 0010101 10111110 10110010 10101010 011001000 01101110 01100100 01101010 010010010 10101010 10111010 10111110 11101010 101101010 10110110 101111100 10101010 10111000 10101110 10101010 101110010 11111010 11101010 01101010 101000100 10101010 101010100 101111100 11101110 10101010 101001000 10101110 00100010 00100010 11001010 011001000 100101100 10101010 10101010 10110110 11101010 10101010 1010010010 10101010 11111100 10101010 10111010 10101010 11101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 65
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, their, in, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, then, in, all, with are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Prometheus, Or, The Poet's Forethought. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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