This is an analysis of the poem Ode On Indolence that begins with:
ONE morn before me were three figures seen,
I With bowed necks, and joined hands, side-faced;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacdacd bXbefXgfgg XhXhijajia cjcjkejkXX hbhbjhXjhg hghgdabdXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101101101 101111111 1101010101 0101010111 1111010101 1101010101 1101110111 0101011101 1101011101 0100110101 1001111111 1111001101 100101011 0101110101 11011101010 0101010100 10011111111 111111001110 1101111111 1001011100 01111101100 1110010011 11100110010 01011011101 0111011101 1001101101 010100101101 1001011101 1111010111 01111101101 0111111101 1101010101 1101010011 1111011101 0110111101 0101010101 110100011 0111110101 0101010110 110011010 1101101101 1101011100 1111010001 0011011101 110111101 1111111101 1101010100 1111110001 1111011101 1101010101 1111011101 11110001001 111101001 0110010101 1100111011 0111010101 1111110101 1101110101 1011001101 0001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 467
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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, my, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, my, the are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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