This is an analysis of the poem Genius Loci that begins with:
What wood-god, on this water's mossy curb,
Lost in reflections of earth's loveliness,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabccccXccX X bdbdXefggfgg X hXhXhhfehfXh X ibibccXhheXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,1,12,1,12,1,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 10010011000 0111110001 11010100101 1101010111 0111010101 1111111101 0101011001 111100110 1111110111 1111110101 00111001001 1 1101011101 1100011111 1101110001 0101011001 11010101000 1001000100 1101011101 1101010101 01010011001 1111011101 0111111101 11001010101 1 1101011011 1101011100 1011111101 1111010100 1101111101 1111110111 1101111111 1111011100 1101011101 11010001101 11001111111 1101100111 1 1101101111 01011001001 1001000100 11010100101 0111100101 11010010101 0111110101 0101101101 01001110101 11010100100 1101010101 0111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word some is repeated.
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- summary of Genius Loci;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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