This is an analysis of the poem The Poet that begins with:

—A Rhapsody
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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcdXefcfdcghfdijiahklchhmfjdjfmhbfcnfcfc jndXhbXfjn dfcjbjofcdb adcmfmjgffpfacjdhklmdfqfhknfccjfjffjrcfpfbpqdjbjnhmmfimifffffjdmfccjscmbmfpffsfcfrmnbmppXmfrXcjmbfmcdbddce moeXcXfmX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,40,10,11,106,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0100 01010010101 1101010101 0111100101 10101001101 1111111101 01001111101 1101000101 11010111001 1101010101 1101010101 00110011010 1010010001 100011000111 00101010001 1100010001 1011100101 1101000101 1111000100 1101011111 1100110101 0101110101 01001101001 00110111001 11110111010 10101011101 1101010101 0101110101 1001110101 10010101001 1110000101 0110010111 010100101010 01011000111 0101100101 01001010101 1101110101 01001001100 01010111001 01010010101 0111110101 11010101001 0101010111 1111110101 10110101100 0111110101 1111010111 01010101100 1001110010 010010101001 01010010101 0001010001 011010101 1101011101 0101110101 01010111001 1100111100 0101001101 111100101001 1101010101 11010100001 1101010001 1101011100 1111110111 0101001101 10001110101 0101011101 1101110101 1101011001 110100110010 0001011101 11010111001 0010011101 11010011001 1011010100 010010010100 0101010101 0011011101 10110100101 1101010101 11100111001 1101000101 1001110101 1001010101 0100000101 01111000101 0101100101 1011110101 01010010111 110110101 01001010101 1101011101 1101110001 1101011101 111101101 01101101001 110110001001 0101011101 1011110001 01010010101 10100101001 1001000101 0011011101 1101110101 0101010101 1111011101 0101011101 1000011111 0101010111 1101110101 0100010001 1101010101 01011101001 0101010101 0101101001 1101010101 01011001001 10010101001 00101111111 0101110101 1111000101 11010010111 1101101101 0101111101 1101111101 0101011101 1111010101 1010010101 1101010101 1001010111 1011110101 01010011001 1011111001 0101010101 0101010101 0101101001 0101110101 01011010101 0101110111 1010101101 01010100010 1011110101 1011110101 10110101001 1001011101 1111110111 1101011001 011010101 0001010101 1101011101 1001001001001 1101010011 010111101 1101011101 100010101001 011100101001 10001011101 1101110111 1101011111 1101010001 01010010101 0111010101 1111010101 1011110101 0101010111 0101000101 01001111101 01011101101 1101010101 0101010101 11110110101 0101010110 1111010101 1101011111 11011101001 1101011111 01100100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1280
  • Average number of words per stanza: 216
  • Amount of lines: 178
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; to, of, and, ye, his, he, or, what are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words than, of, or, with, the are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines vain is repeated).

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  • summary of The Poet;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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