This is an analysis of the poem Prometheus Unbound: Act I (Excerpt) that begins with:
SCENE.--A Ravine of Icy Rocks in the Indian Caucasus. Prometheus is discovered bound to the Precipice. Panthea and Ione areseated at his feet. Time,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabbXcbadefgbbhiXhjkfXlI kefjcXI bbbadmjhbhXgnefbhjjhmXffilkabeneekbbaoiXmco
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,7,43,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100101010010010010000101001001001010100010111100110101 100 110111001110 1111111101 1111010101 0101010101 11000001111 1001110111 1111000101 0111011101 1111111001 1111110011 101110011101 110001100010 1101010111 1110101101 1101111100 110011111100 0110011101 0101110101 0111001111 100101010010 11011000011 1111111101 11011110110 1111111101 1101110101 11110010101 1011010111 10101011101 1011111100 11011110110 0101011001 0111010011 1011010011 1010001010011 0101010111 11110111001 0101000101 1011011111 01010011001 1011110101 1011100101 0100011001 0111011011 1101100111 1011011001 1101110101 0101011111 01010101011 11111001010 1111010101 0111111101 0101110101 01111101110 01110001110 101110001010 1101011101 1100011111 11110011101 11111101110 110100010101 01011010011 110011001001 1100011111 100110011001 1101110011 111101110001 111100101101 1101011111 0100010111110 1111111101 01011111000 0101101101 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1249
- Average number of words per stanza: 208
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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, of, or, no, i, ever, thee are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ever at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- idea of the verse;
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