This is an analysis of the poem Asia: From Prometheus Unbound that begins with:
My soul is an enchanted boat,
Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaabccXXddd XXeffeggddhhh iijjXjiieejjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11010111 01010101110 11111101 01010100 11010100110 010110110 011101010 01101100 010101000 1110101 1001011101 000101010101 111101010 010101100 10011111010 11110101 01010101 11010011010 111001010 111100010 110101010 0101010010 11011101 1001110111 101001011101 11110101 11011101 1111010001 01010111 01110100 1111001001 010101010 11101010 110011101 1000111 10111101 1110101111 110101111000
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 479
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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