This is an analysis of the poem Hymn To Intellectual Beauty that begins with:
The awful shadow of some unseen Power
Floats through unseen among us, -- visiting... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaccbddef ghhggaahiijj ahhaaeXhggkk gggggllgkkef dhbddggbbbef lmmllggmefXcXhfehhiieeedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,12,25,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01011010110 1101011100 01001011001 110111010010 1111011101010 01001001 11011100 111100010 11011101 11000101 11110110 1111010100 1001011101 0111111101 0101111111 1111011111 011101101100 110111110 1111011010 1111111101 11111111 11011001 11111101 1111010011 11011001110 01110101010 11010101110 01001011010 1111011101010 01111111 11110000 1101111001010 11010111 11011100 11110111 111101101 1111011101 1111010101 1001010100 1101110111 1011001110101 11000100 11110101 1101011100 11000101 01111111 01110110 1111010100 1101111111 1100100101110 11110101010 1011000101 1111001011101 11111101 11010101 01111111110 11011101 1011100 10111111 1111110100 11111101110 0111111101 01011101101 11010001010 10010111010010 010011101 1000101001 11110110011 100011111 01001100 111101000 11100111001 0101110101 1101100100 0101010001 1101001111 100110100110 111101101 01011101 0100110101 01011101 110010101 11011101 0101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 495
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; like, dost, thou, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words like, why, depart, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee is repeated).
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- summary of Hymn To Intellectual Beauty;
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