This is an analysis of the poem Ode To Despair that begins with:
TERRIFIC FIEND! thou Monster fell,
Condemn'd in haunts profane to dwell, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcddc effeggaafhhf ccgXbbddiiee jkkjXlmmdl nggXggddfccf ccbbeefcfccc ffXcnccXXooe kkccllllneee lggclleclX flfleaXeXeccgglXgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,12,10,12,12,12,12,10,18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 01010101 11110101 10110101 11000101 11010111 01010001 10110011001 10011111 11111111 1001010101 0101001 01010101 01010101 11110101 01010101 110010101 010010101 11010001 1011110101 11111101 0011000101 010101001 1101010100 10010101 0101011 01010111 00110101 110010101 1111000101 110100011 101101010101 11011101 01010100111 1101011101 1101100101 11101100 01011101 1011000101 11010111 01000101 1111110111 100101010 01110101 11010101 10110101 110101001 11010101 1101 0101010001 11010101001 11010001 01010101 11101000101 11110101 01010101 11010001 101101001 11010111 1011111 1111101 1010101 1000101 00010010111 1010101 1111001101 11010101 110010101 110010111 11010101 10101010 110101001 11011101 1011001101 0110111 1011001 10100101 110101 1010101 01000101 11010101 111101001 11010111 11010101 11010001 11111111 110101010 01000101 11101101 11010101 110010101 01010101 11010101 11010001 11010101 11011101 11010111 11010101 11010101 010101010 11100101 011100010 10010101 01010001 11110101 00110111 01010110 110001 11110101 11110101 11111101 11110101 11010101 110110001 11010001 11110101 10110101 11110010110001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 442
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 118
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; where, and, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, where are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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