This is an analysis of the poem The Fan : A Poem. Book Ii. that begins with:

Olympus' gates unfold: in heaven's high towers
Appear in council all the immortal powers;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd bbeecc ddffccddggddeeaabbddaacchhddddaXcc dddd aaiiaaaaaadddXaaaXddjjggaaddff ddddaaeeaacc hhddaaaaii iiffddaakkiXccffcc ccii aall ggccaaaaaaCCddhhddaaCC hhaaaadd eeggmm ddhhddaaccjjgg nnkkaagghhccbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,34,4,30,12,10,18,4,4,22,8,6,14,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 100101010110 010101001010 1101010101 1001010101 01010101001 0101010101 1101010101 0101011101 1111010101 0101110101 0011100101 110100001001 00111101001 1101010101 01010110101 11001011101 1101110101 1111010101 1011110101 11010101001 01001010101 1101010101 1001010101 1101001001 1111000111 1101010101 1001000101 1101111101 0101010101 0011000101 11010101001 0011110101 0101010101 11010111001 1101010101 11001010101 1000010101 1011110101 1101011111 0101010101 11110010101 1101010101 1111010101 01011100101 1101010101 01000111001 11010100101 0111000101 0101010101 1101010101 1001011101 1101010101 1101011101 0101011001 11010111001 1101110001 1111111101 0011110101 1101010101 11001110101 1101010101 1111000101 1101011001 1101000111 1101010101 1100010110 1010010101 1001000101 0101010101 11010101010 1010110101 1011010001 1101010001 10110010101 1101010001 1101110001 0011010101 1101010001 1101010101 1001010001 1111000101 0101011101 1101010101 0111001101 01100010001 0101010101 01011001001 1111010101 0111111101 1101011111 11000110111 1101110001 0101010101 1111110101 1101010101 1111110101 1001010101 1101110001 010101001001 01010010111 1001000101 1101000101 1011111101 1101111001 111000101 1101010001 11010111001 1011111001 0101111101 1111010111 1011010111 1101010101 1111001001 1111110101 1111001101 11011110010 1111101101 100110001 1101110101 1101001101 1111111101 0101001101 11011001101 0011011001 1001010101 11010100101 0101010101 0111110101 1001010101 1100011111 10110010101 1111010101 1101010101 1011010101 1101111001 1111010101 1001010111 1101010101 110101001001 1101010111 1111011101 1011011101 11011100101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 10011011101 111101101 110010010011 1001010101 1111011101 1011011101 1011100101 1101010101 1100010101 11011001001 0101010101 0101010101 1111110101 1001110101 1101010101 10111010101 0101011111 10010011101 111100101010 11010010010 1111010101 11000100101 1001010101 0100010101 1111110101 1001100101 0100010111 01011111001 1101011001 0101010101 0011110111 11011100111 1111000101 1101011001 0101010101 11010010001 11010101001 1011000101 0101010101 1101110101 1101000101 1101010101 0101010101 1101000101 1110010101 1111010101 1101111111 1011010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 574
  • Average number of words per stanza: 99
  • Amount of lines: 194
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; in, her, with, she, and, their, his, nor are repeated.

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

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  • summary of The Fan : A Poem. Book Ii.;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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