This is an analysis of the poem Fragment: To Byron that begins with:
O mighty mind, in whose deep stream this age
Shakes like a reed in the unheeding storm,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011101 1101001001 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 3
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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