This is an analysis of the poem Prometheus - Christ that begins with:

LASHED to the planet, glaring at the sky,
An eagle at his heart—the Pagan Christ! ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab acc Xde dXfd cXf dbgbXf cdbcefe chee b ffdediec djjdffheb cXke gleimdmkdXXcXdddhleecbdlebbmkm bagekdecbccddXffbXecfbbfi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,3,4,3,6,7,4,1,8,9,4,30,25,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1001010101 1101010101 10010011101 1111010101 110011 0101 1111010001 1111011001 1101010101 10011101010 1101010111 1011010111 01011001 1100010101 01010 10111 1101110111 1101010001 1111101001 1101111100 101101110100 1101110001 1101010001 0111010101 011101000111 1101010011 01010110111 1101010101 01010010101 1101111101 1111110101 0111110001 011111 1101 01111111 1111010101 0111001111 1111110101 01110100110 1111011111 0101111101 1101111101 1111010101 1101111101 1111011111 1111111100 10010100101 1101011101 1101110101 1101000101 1101110111 1101110101 1011110011 11010101010 1111010101 1011010101 1001010111 1101111101 0101011101 1001010101 0111001101 1101010101 1101111001 11011010001 1101010101 1001000101 1111000101 1100010111 0101110111 1101010111 0111110101 1101110101 1111011101 100110101 1111100101 01000100101 1101010111 1001011101 1101110111 110101011110 11010111110 0001001111 1111010101 1001010001 1111100101 1111110111 1100110001 1110011111 1111010111 1111011111 1101010111 110010111110 111100101010 01111100100 1010111111 0101010111 010001111101 01010111110 10010101111 1001011111 1011011011 1111110001 1111000110 1001010101 1101110111 1111011111 1101111111 10010111110 11011101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 337
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 109
  • 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, our, for, that, their are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words between, and, we are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

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