This is an analysis of the poem Iö Pæan that begins with:
TRIUMPHANT o'er trouble, triumphant o'er pain,
Triumphant o'er all and thro' all we shall hie,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaB cdcd efef XbXb gegX hihi agag ijij aXaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010010101 010101111111 0011111001 0011101011 01110101011 101101001011 001001101001 101001011001 00101111101 11101101011 0101001001 101101001001 1101101010 101011011011 101101001010 101001101011 101001001011 11011001001 111010101001 01011001010 1011010010010 101001001011 1111010110010 11001011001 01001001011 110100001001 1101011011 010011001001 110011101111 101011101011 101001101011 01011001001 0101010010101 010101111111 0011111001 0011101011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o'er, triumphant, in, as, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words triumphant, nor are repeated.
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- summary of Iö Pæan;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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