This is an analysis of the poem The Fountain that begins with:
Traveller! on thy journey toiling
By the swift Powow,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabcc adadee XcXcff gcgcdX XhehXX gbgXcc ieXedd ajajkk ebebjj adadll memeee ahahbb adadjj dXXbkk afafll gfgfXi ececjj gfgfccXehehcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111010 10110 00101110 11101 1011101 0010001 111010110 11101 10101010 10101 10111001 1011101 11101110 100101 10011010 11101 10111011 1010111 10101010 01101 01101010 10101 00101010 11101100 10101100 10101 10101010 001001 1010111 1010100 00101010 00101 00111010 10110 1101001 1010101 100101010 11101 10101010 11111 0010101 1010101 00101110 100101 10111010 10101 1010101 11100101 101001110 00101 10101110 10001 1011001 1011101 10111010 00101 10101010 10101 00111001 1010100 10101111 11101 10101111 10111 1111101 1011101 10101010 001001 111001110 011010 1010111 01100101 10101110 11111 11101110 00101 1010101 1010101 10101110 10110 11101010 11101 1110101 1011101 10111010 10101 10111010 10101 1011101 0010101 10001010 10101 11101010 11101 01101000 1110000 10101010 101001 10101010 10111 0010101 10100101 11111010 11111 00111010 11101 1010011 0111101 10101010 011110 10111010 011110 1010101 00100101
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 114
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word well at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Fountain;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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