This is an analysis of the poem The Harbinger that begins with:
to the Progresse.
TWo soules moue here, and mine (a third) must moue ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXaXbbXcbbXdXXeebbeeXXeebbXXXXaaXcaXaaddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,42,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0010 1111110111 1001010101 1111010100 1001010101 11111101001 0111110101 11110111101 101111111 1110010001 010110111 111111111 1111010111 111111011 11010110111 11110111101 1100100111 111111101 1111011101 1111011101 1111110111 1111110111 1001010101 1101110111 1110110101 1111010111 1111001101 1111011101 1101010011 001101101 011101000 11010110011 1111100101 1111011101 1011011101 111111101 1011011011 111101011 1101010101 10110010111 1111111101 1111111001 11110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 983
- Average number of words per stanza: 176
- Amount of lines: 43
- 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; i, so, thy, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word so is repeated.
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- summary of The Harbinger;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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