This is an analysis of the poem Genius that begins with:
Genius, like gold and precious stones,
is chiefly prized because of its rarity. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cbd aXX eeX d fee ceae efghe bge haieeebie aeXae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,3,3,1,3,4,5,3,9,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101 01010100100 10011011011 01010010001000100 11101110010 101010010001001 10101011101 01001101110101 0010010100 1101110 11111101001 100110100 01101111101 10111011010001 111111010 01101001000001 1110100 1011 100100010 01011001010 11000101 101011 1111110100101 101100010 0111110100 1010101110001 100110 011011001010001 11000101010001 110101010011 110001 01001010101111 111010 0101011100110 100111 1001110010 10111 0101000101000100001 111111101 00100101001 010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and, he, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word genius at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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