This is an analysis of the poem At The Close Of A Course Of Lectures that begins with:
As the voice of the watch to the mariner's dream,
As the footstep of Spring on the ice-girdled stream,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddee eeff bbgg hhee eeii jjffXiiff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101001001001 1011001101101 11011101001 01001001001 111001101001 101101001101 11011111001 11011001001 101011011001 1010011010001 101001011001 101101011011 00101101001 010011100001 11101001101 00111111111 1010010100001 0111111101001 01111001001 01101011101 11001101000 11001001101 111001011001 11011001011 11101001011 101011110001 011011101001 101011011001 11011001111 11001011111 111101101101 011001001001 101001001111 101101001001 11011001011 1010101001011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, it, his, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, we are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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