This is an analysis of the poem The Wanderer's Storm-Song that begins with:
He whom thou ne'er leavest, Genius,
Feels no dread within his heart...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcAdefdf AgXhbiaj Acgkh AXbdd fjllhD hlhlD cbkXhfiDfDXfi XadmdiJ llbXJcgi glnb bcXdXkkgddfiX fbdeddXiXidmekkkX kodnkkooXbXobmib
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,5,5,6,5,13,7,8,4,13,17,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010 1110101 1010101 11111010 00011 00011 1001 1011 1111 11111010 11101011 0110010 1010 101001 1010011 10101100 10010 11111010 1110111010 1110101 1110011001 00101110 11111010 111110 0011 10101010 10101010 1101011 11010 1010101 101010101 101110 101 1111010010 111101001 10111110 10101001 101 11101 0101010010 1110110 101111010 1101011010 0101 1111010 1101110 110111 1101110 0100101 110111 01010 1010 1010 10010 11101 0101 1001 10010 11101 101 101 11110 10010 101 0101 1010101 101 10100101 1010 111 11111101 101001 101010 10101 10010 11111 1010001 110101 100101 10101 0101 110101 10010 11011 11110 00101 100101 001010010 0101110010 100 11011 100101 101001 11010 10101 1111 01010 1010 1010 100 1010100 111101 101 01001 01010010 00110 100101 1001001 1111101010 1011 1101 1001 1011 1001 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 115
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, like, ye, and, thee are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words will, tow'rd, ye, thee, runs are repeated.
The author used the same words him, ye at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines earth, warmth, ones are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word gods at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases ye, genius connect the lines.
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