This is an analysis of the poem Egotism that begins with:
YE powers fantastic ! goblin, sylph and fay,
Whose subtle forms no laws material sway ;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddeeaaaddff gghhhheeiijjbbkkjjbblliijXkkaaXbb hXjjffjjiimm aahhddnngg bXffXh iihXffiihhii iiiicXddhhiihh aahhXbiibbffkk iiaajjjjkkccbbXdhhiibbbbjjaX kXjjjhhXokkX fffXddcccccckkppjjhhbbbbbbii jjXajjjjqqkkddbbffaahh aXhhiirrjjccaaff aannbbppoojjjjjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,33,12,10,6,12,14,14,28,12,28,22,16,22,14,20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11001010111 11011101001 01001001111 0101010111 1101010111 0101010100 1101010001 0101010011 1101110101 1001010001 1111110101 1011000101 0111111110 0111110011 1101010111 1011010101 11001111101 1111010101 1101110010 0101110101 1101000101 1101010011 1111010101 1111110101 0101010100 1111110001 1101010101 10001001111 0101111100 0101010101 1101010111 1100110011 0101010111 1101011111 1101110101 11010110001 1111111101 01011100001 1101011101 0101010001 1101110001 01011111001 1101110101 1111111110 11111101001 1100110111 1101010101 0111110101 1001010101 11110111011 1111110001 1111011001 1001110111 110100111 0100110111 1101011101 1101010101 01110100001 11001000101 1100010101 1101011111 1011000101 1011000101 0100110101 1101010101 0101011111 1011010011 10001111111 1101010101 0111110111 1101011101 1100010101 0111010001 0111010110 1111000111 1101010100 0101010111 1101011101 1101010110 1101100001 1010000110 1101010101 0101010001 0101111110 1101110101 0100110011 0101001101 0101010101 1111011101 0101010111 1101110101 0111010101 1111000101 1101010100 0101010111 1111010011 1101011101 10001010101 1111011101 1101000101 01110100001 1001010111 01111100001 0111010101 1101110001 1101111101 1101010101 0101011101 1111010001 11110100101 11010101100 0101011101 1101011101 1101010101 11111101001 1111011101 1111010101 0101010101 10110101001 1101010101 1001110111 0101010001 1101100111 01110011101 11010011111 01110000101 0100111111101 0100010101 1101011101 1101110111 1001010101 0111100101 1101010001 0111000101 11011111010 01010001001 0101011101 1101010101 11111010101 1101011101 10110100001 11010100101 0111111101 1111111101 1111011101 11011100010 1001010111 1001110111 10001010101 0011010101 1101010111 1011110111 0101010101 1101100111 1001011001 1110010101 0101000100 0100011111 0111110111 1111010111 1111010101 1111010101 1001010101 1001010110 1101010001 0101011101 1101010101 1011110100 0101010101 1101010101 1111111101 0111010101 0101010111 1101010001 1101000101 1111010101 0101011101 1111010101 1100110001 1101011101 1101001101 0101011100 1111100111 1001010011 1101000101 1110110101 1001010101 1101110101 0101110101 1111110101 0101000111 10011010111 0101011101 0101111111 1001110101 0101000101 1111110101 1001000101 1111111111 011111001001 01001011101 1011000111 1101111101 1101010101 1111010001 1101010101 01011101001 1101111111 1001110101 1101010101 1111111101 1101001100 11110011101 11010001001 11000110111 1001110011 1110001111 011100101001 1101010101 1001001111 0011000111 1001011101 1111110101 11110011101 1111010111 1101000101 0101011101 1110010101 1001110001 01010010011 0101010101 0101010011 0111011101 1101001101 10010001010 10010001010 0101010101 0101111111 1001011101 0101000101 11010100101 1010100101 1001000101 0111011101 11010011111 1110010101 11010101001 10101010101 1101010101 0101110101 1001011101 1101110101 1101000101 110010010001 1111001101 100010001101 0101110111 0111110001 1111010101 1101010111 0101111101 1101000101 1101110101 1101110001 10111010101 1111011101 1101011111 1101010101 0111010111 1011001111 1011111111 1011010111 1101010101 1101010111 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 0101010001 0101001111 1101001101 1101010101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 765
- Average number of words per stanza: 135
- Amount of lines: 282
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, it, he, his, ', of, you, her, its, to, how, she, that, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, of, what, and, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Egotism;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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