This is an analysis of the poem Epipsychidion (Excerpt) that begins with:

Emily,
A ship is floating in the harbour now,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbccddeeffffeXdghhcchhiicchhhhhccdddXddddjjkkkkiieXlcffeeiibbaeffhhXggmmkkXgbbffiiiggffkkeafXddeXkkddiiea hhccbbmmffeaffmmffggffjjeemmllhhXceadgnnjjjggkkaeffhhggddeakkbbiimXhXeeooaegglc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 106,79,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 100 0101000101 010100100101 1001101101 1111011101 0101010101 01001011101 0101001111 1111011101 1101110111 0011000101 1101010111 1111110111 1100010101 1011011000 001110101 1001010101 1101011110 0111010101 11110010101 10010011101 1011000101 10110010011 0101010101 0101011111 1001011101 11011000101 1010010101 1111110101 11001010011 111101010 1011011101 0101110111 1011011101 10011011011 1101010101 1000011101 01000101000 1101010011 0111001011 01000101010 11111000110 1101011111 10011001101 11110010101 1111010101 11001010111 0111000100 1001010111 1100110001 00111101111 1011011000 11110010100 1101110011 00010011011 1001111101 0101011101 1101011101 010001101101 0101110101 1001110101 0101111001 1111010100 1001111001 1111000111 1101110101 1111110101 10101010101 10110111000 1011010111 1101010111 1001000101 11001010111 0101110111 10011111101 1011111000 1011000100 0011011111 1001010101 11010011001 0100011101 1111010111 1001000111 1001001101 1100010101 1100010101 0111010101 1100010001 0110010111 1001000101 1001010111 1100111100 1001100100 0101011100 0100110101 10110100101 0101111101 1111010100 0111011101 1100010101 1001011101 11110100110 1100011101 0101010111 01101111111 1011110100 0111111111 1001000101 1111011101 1001010101 1100010111 1101010101 1111110111 1100011101 0100010101 1001110011 0111111101 1001110100 1101110111 10101110001 0101011111 1001010101 011001000101 1101011011 10101010111 0101101111 0101100111 0111101101 0101010111 0011011101 11010111101 1101010101 0101001001 1001000111 11011111010 1001011010 1100011101 01010101101 0101011100 1101010101 1001110001 1011010100 0101011110 011101001 1111010111 01110101001 1111011101 0110001101 11001011101 0111010111 10111111001 1011010101 1111011101 1101011100 01111100101 0101010111 0101000101 1010100101 1111011101 1111010111 0101001101 0111010101 1110110101 0100110110 0101010100 11001100101 1101011101 10011111001 1100111111 11110000101 1110000101 11011000101 101101000 0101010101 1111111100 0101110101 11010110101 1101111001 11010011111 11011110100 1101010101 011111111 0001011101 11010101010 1111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4133
  • Average number of words per stanza: 698
  • Amount of lines: 185
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, from, of, our, one are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, and are repeated.

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  • summary of Epipsychidion (Excerpt);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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