This is an analysis of the poem The Minstrel; Or, The Progress Of Genius : Book I. that begins with:

I.
Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbccdcdd XefeXfbfbb Xcacaagagg Xhdhddedee adidiififf ahjhjjejee Xekekchchh Xfdfddhdhh XceceXdedd lmimiibibb afafXneaee XhohooioXi Xeaeaahahh XXpippbpbb Xhchccmcmm XaaaXahahh Xahahhbhbb Xhghgghghh XXdeddedee Xadaddfdff Xbibiihihh Xididdfdff XXibiioioo Xf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
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1111010111 10101010101 1101010101 101100010101 01010111001 0101111001 01110110111001 1 1101011101 0101010101 1101010111 01001110100 1111100110 0101111101 1011010011 1001010101 010001010001 1 0101011101 1101010101 0101111101 1101111101 0101010001 0101010111 1101010101 1111011110 01111100100011 1 01110101001 010100101001 1101110101 1111010101 1111110101 1101110101 11011011101 1101010101 100111110001 1 11001101100 1100110101 1101010101 0011010101 0101010101 1101010101 1010010101 11111100101 0111010100011 1 0111110101 1101100101 0111001101 1100010111 1111010101 1111010101 0100110101 0101111111 111101010011 1 1111011101 1111010101 1011011111 1111010100 1011010011 1101110101 1111011111 0101111101 1111001110111 1 1111010101 1111111101 11010001001 01001100101 1111010101 1101010101 0110010111 1111011101 100101010101 1 11101010011 0111001111 0101010111 0101010101 1111110111 1101011101 11000100101 1011110001 110101100111 1 11010101010 01010010101 111101101001 0101010101 1101110101 1101010001 1100010101 1101010101 111101110101 1 1111010001 11001010101 0101111101 1111010101 1001011101 1111010101 1111010101 1100011101 1101011101101 1 1101011101 1101010111 1101010101 11001001101 11101010101 010100010101 1101010101 1101011101 111101010101 1 0111011101 1011011101 0101011101 1111110101 01010101001 10111000101 1001101101 1101010101 010111111001 1 1111110111 0101010101 11011011101 01110001001 1101111101 01110110101 1111010101 1101110101 1011010100101 1 11010100111 1101111101 11101011101 11010101100 1111111101 0101011101 11010101001 1011010101 100111010101 1 1101000111 1100110101 1001010111 11001010101 11110011111 1101010101 1100010101 1101110101 111101010101 1 1001110111 1111000110 1101110101 1111110111 10101111101 0101010101 11010101101 101110101001 010101010101 1 1101010001 11010101001 1101010101 1111010101 0010110111 0101010011 110010011101 1101010101 1110101010101 1 01010101011 0111110101 1101101111 1101010001 1111110101 0101010110 1111111001 1111110101 11010001001101 1 1001011101 1101010111 0100110001 11011100101 0101010101 1010110001 0111111101 1111011101 110111110111 1 10010011010 0101010101 11010101010 1111110001 1100110101 0111000101 1111010101 1101110110 1101111100101 1 1111110101 11011100101 0101111101 1101000101 1111111101 10011101010 01111010101 01111101010 101111100101 1 1011010001 1001010101 1101010101 100110010101 1111011101 1110010101 1101010111 1101010101 11111101001001 1 1101010101 11001110101 0101010111 1101110101 1111011111 0101001001 11010100111 1001011101 01010011000101 1 10010101001 0101010101 11010101001 1001011101 1111011001 11111111010 1111110001 011101010010 110101010101 1 0100111101 01010101001 01010010111 11010010101 1111011101 0101110101 110101000111 1001010101 0101111100101 1 0101110001 11010011001 1100111101 1100110101 101110101 1100110101 1101110101 0111110101 110011010101 1 1011110111 0101110111 1111110110 11010010101 10101010101 1111010101 10110010101 1101010101 0101010100111 1 1101000111 01110010101 0101010101 0101010110 00110100111 01001010101 0101000101 0101110101 1011011010101 1 0101110101 1001010101 0101010111 10110100101 11010101001 11010101010 0101011101 11010001010 111101001010 1 11010100101 110011100101 11011100100 0111000101 100111001001 0101110001 1111000101 10101011111 110101111100 1 1111110001 1001010101 1011110011 1111010111 11011100110 1011011101 1111110111 1111110101 010001110101 1 1111010001 1011010111 111000101001 0111110111 1111011101 01111111001 1111010111 1111010101 110011110001 1 1101010101 1111010111 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 11010101010 1011110001 1101010110101 1 10011101101 1111110101 1101110111 11100000111 0111000101 1111000101 1101110001 1111010101 10011111101011 1 1101000101 0101010101 0101010101 01011100101 1100110101 111101101 1101010111 0101110101 110101111101 1 0101010101 01110010101 1011010101 1001010111 1111011101 10010101110 11110110101 0101011101 111111110111 1 010010101 1011010101 1111110101 11001111100 1101110101 10100011101 11011001101 1111010010 110101111101 1 10110010101 110101010010 01010101101 01010101110 11001111110 0101110101 11010111010 0101011101 111111010001 1 1111010011 1101001101 1011000111 0111010001 0101010101 01010101001 11111010111 1101000101 1110001110011 1 1111011101 101100011001 1101010101 01110101001 1011011101 1001011101 11011010101 1101010001 111101010101 1 11001010100 11011111001 1101010101 1111010101 1101010001 1111111101 11110010001 01010010101 111101111101 1 1101010101 0101110101 1101011101 1100111101 0101110101 0100110101 1101010111 1110011101 110000110001 1 111011101 11010111001 01010010101 110010110101 110100100101 1001010110 1101110101 1101110101 11001111100111 1 1101000101 01010111101 10001010011 00110010101 11001110101 10111000101 01010010001 1101010101 110101010100101 1 0100010111 0101010101 1001001101 0011010101 10011100001 11110011110 00111101001 11011100010 10010101001010 1 0101110101 0110110101 0111110011 0101110101 1111011001 0101011111 11001010111 1111010101 100101110101 1 1101010111 1101001101 01110010101 1100010101 0101110111 0100111111 1001110001 1101110111 101101101001 1 11100010011 0111001111 1111110001 11010010101 10001010101 0101111101 1111010101 1111110001 110101010101 1 1101100101 11001110101 1101010101 1011010111 0101010101 1011110111 01010101011 11110101001 1101110101100 1 1111010101 01010011111 1101010111 1111110011 1001010111 1101010101 111011101 1101010101 110101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 60
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 413
  • Average number of words per stanza: 72
  • Amount of lines: 600
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, his, and, of, all, that, nor, by, he, your, ye, they, thy, my, in, or, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, or, where, a, nor, if are repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Minstrel; Or, The Progress Of Genius : Book I.;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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