This is an analysis of the poem After A Lecture On Wordsworth that begins with:
COME, spread your wings, as I spread mine,
And leave the crowded hall... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caXa adad aeae fgfg hchc agag bebe icic iaia ffff XgXg ejej cgcg eaea dede fafa cbcb djdj caca fafa gcgc baba kfkfXiiii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111111 110101 11010111 1010101 11010111 100101 10110101 110101 01011111 1101001 1101001001 110101 01011111 010111 110011101 110101 01010101 0100101 01111101 0100101 00110101 010101 11110101 110101 11010101 011111 01110101 101101 11011111 111111 111000101 111101 10010111 110111 01011111 001111 11010101 110101 01010111 110101 11011101 010001 01111101 110101 101101011 010111 110101010 110111 111101011 010101 11010101 100111 11010101 0101001 11110101 110101 11110101 111101 11110101 1101001 01000101 100101 010010111 010001 10110101 1101001 11010101 010101 11110111 11011 11110101 01010101 01011111 100111 01010111 0101001 10110001 100101 11010101 101111 0100101001 101101 10110001 111101 11111101 110101 110100101 010101 11011111 0100101 01111101 011101 01010101 111101 10110111 010101 11011101 011111 01100111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 100
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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