This is an analysis of the poem Calidore: A Fragment that begins with:

Young Calidore is paddling o'er the lake;
His healthful spirit eager and awake ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXcddeeffgghhXe hhXXiiijjeecXXj XkXl Xedd bbhh lliillmXhheecnmmnn ddlloolll llmmeeXkdXeehhhXllcnddllaaXdiimmhhXnjjXpccnhhddllXhkkhhddncXh ddqqppXdmmffkkcXllXffqqeellmmo
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,15,4,4,4,18,9,61,30,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110001001001 0101010101 0101000101 1111010101 011100111000 1101000111 1110110101 0101011101 1111000101 01011100111 11000100101 111101 11011101110 01110001110 0101010111 1101000111 1011010110 01001000101 1101100101 1101010101 11000101010 11011111100 1101010101 1001010111 1100110101 00110101001 1101010001 1111011101 0011110101 1011011101 1011111000 1101110100 1011110101 01001010100 1011010111 1101100110 1101010001 0101010110 1100011101 0110111101 1101110101 0101000101 0101010011 1101010101 1101010101 1101010111 0101100101 1101001111 11110100101 00111101001 01001111111 01010111010 11011101100 01010101101 0101011011 0101110101 1111010001 1101011101 1101011100 1101011101 10010001101 11101111110 01010111010 1111010101 11010101011 10011111010 01010011010 1101110101 1100110101 1101010101 1011010101 011100 0101110111 1101011101 1011111101 01001000111 1111011101 0101110101 1001010100 1111010101 1101111101 11001100101 0011010111 11000010 1101011101 1001010111 01110100111 1101010100 110101110110 11010101110 01110101001 101100 1100010101 1111010101 10010101010 010100101010 1011000101 1011111101 1011001100 1001110001 0011011101 0111010101 01111101010 11010111010 1101010101 01101010001 01100111000 11010011010 0101010101 1101100101 0011011110 0101001101 1101000110 1101000111 110110100 0101110001 0111110111 0111011101 01110011101 0101011001 1111010101 1011011100 1001010001 10110000101 1101010101 111111001 0111010101 0001011111 1101010101 00101011100 1001011111 01100111010 11010101010 10010101110 01110101010 10111101010 01110111010 11001100101 1000011101 0011011100 0101011001 11011100010 01010111010 011000110101 1101110101 0101011000 1111011101 1111010001 1111011100 1111010001 11110100101 1001000101 1011010101 11010100110 10001001110 01001011101 1001010101 11010011010 11010101010 11000111110 11011100010 1011
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 716
  • Average number of words per stanza: 125
  • Amount of lines: 162
  • 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; and, or, his, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, his, a, it, softly are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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