This is an analysis of the poem The Columbiad: Book Ii that begins with:

The Argument
... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

The information we provided is prepared by means of a special computer program. Use the criteria sheet to understand greatest poems or improve your poetry analysis essay.

  • Rhyme scheme: a b cXdd eeaaffccccggaa Xahhiiccffbh XXjjkkkkllkkmmXchhll nniigXggXcmmffggmmcc aammkkffkkiiggXgccccXgkk iiiikkkkXcggiiffll ccXimmiimmcc cckkcclXcckkXa kkhhccff ccffkkcX kkccXaXfkkaaggcc ffaaiill ffffmmiihhccff aakkeeccXgmmcc hhiikk kkccccaaiicciiffccll
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,4,14,12,20,20,24,18,12,14,8,8,16,8,14,14,6,20,6,14,8,12,14,8,12,22,8,14,16,8,12,12,12,12,10,16,6,16,4,18,10,12,8,24,10,6,6,10,12,8,8,10,31,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0100 10001000101011011000100101001101000101001010011010100010010100010010001001010111001010010011010011011011111011010101010001000111101001011011110110001101010101010110010110101001000010100101001001001001100010010101001010110101101000101001011010000100100010010001110010110101100101010011001001100 11001110101 11010101100 1101010101 11110001011 1111111111 11001010101 0101000101 11110100111 1101010111 1001110111 1101110101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010101 11100110111 101001110101 1101010101 11110100101 0101010101 1101111101 11110101001 11010101001 0101010111 1111010101 10111100101 11011000101 1101010111 1011011111 11010101010 1011111101 01110100110 1101010110 1011010101 01010010001 1101110110 1111011101 1101010101 11010000101 1111001101 1101110111 01001110111 1111011101 1111010111 0111000101 11011100110 0101110101 11110100101 0111110111 1101110101 01010100001 11110110101 0101011101 0101011101 11010000101 10100101001 0101111101 1001011101 11001110001 11010111000 0101010111 110010011101 01001010101 01011000101 0111010111 11001110101 1111010101 1101110101 1101010101 11010101001 1101010101 0111001111 1001010001 11010011001 10011100101 0101010101 0101010101 0101011101 0101110101 11010010101 11001010101 11110100001 11110010101 0111000101 1101110101 01111000001 1101000001 1011111011 1101000101 1111110001 1101011101 01110000101 10111100101 1001000101 1101010101 1111010101 11001110101 01001010101 0101010101 0101010111 010010100110 1111001101 1001110001 1111001110 10111100101 1101001101 11100010101 1111010101 10011100101 1101010101 0111010101 0110000101 1101100001 1111110101 1101110101 01011111100 11010011101 1111001101 0101010001 1101010101 1111010101 0101110101 1111010101 1101010101 0111000101 11001110101 11011101001 0101110111 11010010101 1100110101 10111000101 11010101001 11010110110 01010100101 1011110011 1111010101 110011100101 1101110110 0101110101 0101110101 111100100101 1111010101 1011011011 0111000101 1101011101 1111111101 1101110101 11110101001 11010100101 0101000101 1101000111 01100100101 0101110101 0111000101 1101011100 10001010101 1101110101 100101101001 1111111101 1100101100011 11110100101 1101011110 1101001101 11011101001 01110001001 1111010101 01010101001 0101011101 0111010111 01001101001 1011010101 1001010111 1101110101 0101010111 0101000101 1001011001 01010010101 1101000101 11011101001 1111010101 1101010101 11010011111 11011100101 1101010111 0101011101 0101010101 1101110101 1001011001 11110100101 11110101001 1001110101 0101011101 1101010101 1101010101 1011001101 01011101010 01110001010 1011110111 1111011101 1001010111 01011101001 11010100101 11100010101 111101001001 1101010101 1011001101 11010010101 1111010101 1101010101 11110111001 1101001101 11110000101 1101011101 1000010101 0111010101 0101011101 01111000001 1101010101 0101010101 1101011101 0111111111 1101010101 01110010111 110011100101 1111011101 1001011101 1111011111 100110100111 01010101001 1101110101 0101010101 1011010101 0111010101 1111010101 0111011110 1111010101 0111010001 1101010101 1101010001 0101010101 11110110001 1101010111 01011100101 0101011101 11011101001 1111000101 01010100101 10110010111 1111110101 0111010111 011100101010 0101111111 010011110101 11010100101 01010100101 01001100101 1101110101 010010100101 1101000101 01001010101 10010110101 11001110101 01010101001 10011100101 1101010101 10010010101 1101010010 1101110101 1101110101 1001010011 11010101001 0111010101 01110010101 10110100101 1101010101 100110010101 11010000101 1101010101 1101000101 1101010101 1111110101 11001010111 0101110101 0101000101 1101110101 1101010101 01001010101 1101010101 1011111101 11001011101 1101110101 11010101001 1101110101 1111000101 1011110101 0110010001 1101010101 10011101001 1111011101 0100110101 1101001101 1111011101 0111111101 1100010101 1110010101 0101011101 101110001001 11110101001 11100010101 1111110001 0101010101 1101010101 11110100101 1011000101 11010100101 0101011101 1101110101 10101110101 1011110101 0101010101 1111000101 1011110111 11001010101 1011101101 1011110101 1111010101 1101111101 01110111001 1111010011 1101010101 01110100001 0101010010 1111110101 1011001101 1001110101 1100100101011 11010100101 0101110101 0101000101 1101010101 1101011101 1101000101 1101010101 1101110101 1111110101 1101010001 1101010101 10101011010001 10110101001 11010010101 1101110101 0101100101 1011110001 11010100101 11110010101 11010100111 1101010101 1101110101 1111010111 1101011101 1111011101 1011011101 1101110101 0101011111 01011111011 0101010111 0111010111 0111010111 01011101011 1011010101 0111110101 110100101001 11001010101 1101010101 0111010111 11010101101 1010010101 10001111110 11011100111 0111000101 0101110101 01111011101 1101110101 101100111010 01011101010 1011110111 11110101001 1101010011 1011110111 1111010101 0111010011 1111010101 1011110101 11110101001 0111010001 0111010101 111101001001 11011100001 1101010101 1011010111 1101010101 1101010101 01001010101 1101010101 1101111101 0101010101 1011001111 0100111101 0101010101 01011100101 1101010101 1101110001 011100001001 1011010101 0101001111 0101010101 0110001001 0111010110 01001001101 1111010101 1011110101 0101111001 0011110101 1011110001 1111111101 1011110011 1101000101 1001010101 01101110111 0101011101 11001110101 1101110101 1011010101 1101111101 1001110101 1111000101 1111111101 01110101001 10111111010 1001010101 010010101001 1100010111 0101010101 0111010101 01010001001 1101011101 0101110101 0101110101 01010101010 01011100001 1101110101 1111010111 11010101001 1101010101 1101001101 1001111101 10010100101 1111010111 1111000101 1101010101 1101010101 01110111010 11110100101 1111010101 11110010111 1101110101 1101001101 11110010111 01010101001 11010010100 0111010111 010100010010 1101010101 01010101001 1101010001 11011100101 1111010101 1101010101 1001110001 100110101001 1101000101 11101010101 11010000101 11010010101 1101010101 1101110101 1001010101 1101010101 01011010101 11010100101 100110001001 1101111001 111010111 1001110101 1101000101 0111010101 11010010101 11010010101 1011010101 0101010101 1101011101 01001100101 11010101010 1101011001 0101000101 0101010001 11001010101 1111010101 1101010011 0101010101 11110000101 1001010101 0101110101 1111010101 0101000101 1001010101 1101000101 1101000101 010100101001 1101010101 1101010101 101001010111 11010000101 1111001101 1111000101 0101010101 1111010111 1111010101 0011110111 11001010101 1101010101 11010101011 1101011101 1101110101 11010100101 1101010101 10111100111 0101010101 1111010101 01010111001 1101011101 1101100101 0111000101 010101001010 1101010101 0111010101 1101010101 1111000101 1101011101 11001011111 1101011111 1111110101 1101010001 1101110101 011100001001 11011100101 010011001001 1111010101 1101011101 1111010001 0101000111 1101010101 1111010101 01111101010 011111010010 01010110101 110100001001 1101010101 1111000101 10010101001 1011110101 1101010101 0101010101 1101011111 1101011101 101111101 1101110101 1111111101 1111000101 1101111101 1101010101 1101111101 01001011101 1101110101 1111010101 1101010101 111010101 1111010101 0101010111 01110100101 1111110011 1111001101 1101011101 1101110101 0111010101 0111011101 01110100111 1101011011 11010101001 1011110101 11110101001 11010101001 1111011101 11110010101 01010111011 10111111101 101111101 1111111101 01001111001 111110011001 1101110101 0111110111 1101011101 1111011101 1101010101 1111010111 1111000101 0101010101 0101010101 10110100111 0111010101 1101010101 1011010101 110011001001 1111011101 1111011001 1111110101 01011101001 0111011101 010010011001 01110010111 11010010101 0101010101 0111010101 1011000101 1111010101 0111000101 1011010101 1001110101 1011010101 1101000101 00101010101 01010001001 0111010101 0111111101 1001010101 1111010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 55
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 545
  • Average number of words per stanza: 94
  • Amount of lines: 650
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; of, and, that, in, its, their, as, his, or, all, so, they, no, thy, to, there, her, my, nor are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, ere, no, where, the, his are repeated.

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

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

  • summary of The Columbiad: Book Ii;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

More information about poems by Joel Barlow