This is an analysis of the poem To Charles Cowden Clarke that begins with:
Oft have you seen a swan superbly frowning,
And with proud breast his own white shadow crowning; ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffghffbbii ggjjXXejiiiiffdddkkXXcciihhkkllaakkiicXhhmmffaahhllkkiXbbiiaabbiiXXeeiXbbbmmiigXkXeekkkkbbXmaaiibbbbmmjjkkiifXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,112,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11110110010 10110111110 1101010101 1100010101 1001001011 010101101 1101010001 0100010101 11010110010 01011101110 11010111010 10110111010 1111111101 11110000100 1111110101 10011010101 0101111101 1101110101 11010100110 010100101010 10110111101 1111010101 0111010111 1101010101 01111011010 11110100010 01001011000 0110010111 111110111 1101110001 11110010010 10010001010 1001111101 1001000101 111010001 1101000101 11000101001 1101111011 0101010101 00010101010 00110001100 11011101101 0111000111 01100111110 01010110010 01100101010 11010111110 0101111101 1111111111 1011000101 1101111001 1111111111 1111110101 0101010101 1101011101 1001010101 11011110101 100111100100 100111111100 11110101010 10011111010 1111001001 1011010001 11111111011 01010010101 10111010101 1111011101 1101010110 11010100110 0101010101 0101011101 010101111101 1111011110 1101001100 0101111110 11110110001 11110010101 1101111101 1111010111 11111011010 01111111010 01110111001 10100110110 1111111101 01010101010 010110101010 11011100010 01010111010 01011111110 0101110101 1101000101 0111011001 11001010101 1101010111 1110010001 0110010101 11011100110 11010101110 0111011101 1111010101 111011011110 10111111000 111111111110 10110111010 110101011010 00010101010 1111110110 1001011101 1101111111 11100010110 110101110100 11010101110 11100101010 10110101010 1111011101 1101010101 110001111 1111011111 1111011101 1101001111 1111001111 1101111101 1100111111 1111110101 0111011101 1101110101 0111011111 111101010101 1111110101 1100110111 1111110111 01111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2981
- Average number of words per stanza: 542
- Amount of lines: 132
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; them, who, and, of, my, i, to, by, when, nor, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, from, of, the, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them is repeated).
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