This is an analysis of the poem The Pilgrim's Vision that begins with:
IN the hour of twilight shadows
The Pilgrim sire looked out;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcbdb ebfbXbgb Xh ahihXX jkgkekgk bbabibXb jgegiglg alilhlfl ikgkakjk jjijmjbj jalafaaa bdfdadmd eekekebe ealanaXX blflflhl XejXceXe Xjejjjaj Xjnjejjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,2,6,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001001111 0101011 110010100 111101 01000101 110101 10101010 1010101 01101010 1110101 01110101 110101 01111100 1101101 10111010 0011011 0101011 011011 01110100 011011 01011101 010101 1101010 110101 11010101 110111 0101010 101101 10101010 110101 1001010 110100 11001010 110101 01010010 010101 0111010 010111 1101010 110101 1011010 010111 01110101 010101 11011101 110101 010101001 010101 1101010 110111 11100101 010111 11010101 010101 11011101 010111 1101010 010111 01010110 1000101 10010100 010101 1101110 110111 1101010 010101 01010101 111101 1111010 111101 1101010 110101 11111101 1100101 01011101 110111 11110111 110001 11011101 110101 11010111 110101 010010101 11001001 01110101 11001001 110000101 010101 110011101 0100101 11010101 110101 110100101 011111 01010111 010101 11010111 0101010 01010101 0101010 01010101 1101010 01010111 010001 11011101 110101 01011101 110101 11011101 010101 01110101 1101001 0101010 010101 01010101 0111011 010101001 010101 01110001 0100101 1101100 0100001 1101101 0111101 11000101 010101 01110001 011111 1101010 110101 11010101 0101001 1001010 110111 0001010 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 136
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a, his are repeated.
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- summary of The Pilgrim's Vision;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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