This is an analysis of the poem Fragments Of An Unfinished Drama that begins with:

Scene.--Before the Cavern of the Indian Enchantress.
The Enchantress comes forth.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X a Xbcbcddd efefaaa f faXghiedjccjjk ch clif hhhi cilmm hfccffm cii hXinji cog hcnkklnbifliafnojXckeoccfcijpmqanl cikfeli hlilj cicqffiljjcrleakfji hfmconjmnaseficiobn cceftl honctfljiefmmiiXfqjjfmmeicX cf hnibffXejcncoiXmjsmjgfujiffsflfjcXjrjnnfnkcn c
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,8,7,1,14,2,4,4,5,7,3,6,3,34,7,5,19,19,6,27,2,44,2,55,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 10101000100100 010011 100 1110100101 1110110101 1011110101 11101110101 11101 1111 110011111 11110101101 1101111101 10111100101 10110110101 11111 111001 1010010111 010010110101010 10 0101010001 11001111100 0001010111 1101010100 0011110101 1001001100 1001010001 10010101011 01111100010 11010111110 1111011111 1101110001 0011010101 0101 1001110 100 10111101001 1101000101 111100 10 11010 1111110100 00010010 100 111 11010101111 11010111110 110110 10 1011 1101101101 0101110111 1111000111 1101010101 1111010 100 111 1101 10 111110 0101011101 1111010101 1101011011 111 100 1110101 1111110101 10 111111010 0101000111 1111111111 1111101101 01010111011 00101000101 1101100101 0110010111 01011010111 1101110101 1111001001 1110010011 11001101010 1111111111 0111111111 11010101001 10010101011 11010001010 110101101 10110101011 10111110101 10111011001 1100010101 0101000101 1011110101 1101010101 1001010101 01010001010 1110110110 0101010100 10100001001 1111110101 10111010101 100 1101010011 0100010111 1111000100 1100011101 1011000101 01 10 110101001 11111111010 1101111000 0110111 100 01 1010 01110101001 11110011010 01010101010 010011001 010 11010110010 0011110100 1101010111 1101011101 1100100111 0011101100 1001001111 1101110111 0100011111 1101000101 1111 10 111101 11000100110 101101000010 101011111 1111011101 0101100101 11011100100 1111001101 1111010001 11110101110 11010100001 1111110100 1111101111 1111111011 0101111101 1101111111 0101000101 11111101 100 101 0111010011 1101011101 0011110010100 1111010101 10 0101111101 1111010101 100111010 1101010100 11110010001 01110101001 10110101110 1001111001 1101110101 0011111101 10010111010 111100010010 1110010101 0101011101 0101011100 1101100111 1110011100 1101000100 1100011101 1101010100 01110001010 10011001010 1101010101 0100010101 1011011101 01000010100 100 1101 10 1011101 10110101001 1011010111 1100111111 100110010111 0111000101 11110101010 11110111 1001111111 1101010101 1111110101 0111111111 1101011101 11001101100 01011101010 1101110011 1101010110 01010100110 101100111 1000001101 1101000101 0101001111 010 01010101011 0101110101 1011001100 1101010011 10011101011 1101010111 1101110101 1001010101 1100111101 1101111101 1011010101 1111100101 1000111111 0101000101 11101101010 0101011001 11010110111 1101000111 1101011111 0101010011 100 10111001 10 01 1110010111 1101010011 0101010101 1101011101 011011101100 0101011101 1001000101 10001010100 1100010111 1001010101 11011101010 10011110101 10100101010 1011110101 0101010101 1001010101 1111010101 1101001100 11 0101010101 0111110100 0011010111 0111100101 0101010101 01111010010 0101110101 0101010101 1001010001 0101010101 0111110101 00110101010 010010101101 110100101001 1101001001 0011010101 11010101010 010010100010 01011100111 10011100 1101111011 0101010101 1101011101 0101011111 1101001100 11110110010 10101010101 1101100101 10010100 100 11 1101010101 11010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 26
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 405
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 287
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; enchantress, he, like, and, my, of, to, thou, i, as, her, your, his, more, be, should, need are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, indian, my, and, but, more, a, to, of are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines spirit is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word loved at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase spirit connects the lines.

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