This is an analysis of the poem Ode To William H. Channing that begins with:
Though loth to grieve
The evil time's sole patriot,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbb cXdce XfgXhXg ijXXi ifeedada hfhf kfXXfkkd hbhbkfkf bfXbfX kfXffXfb aXeXjciXdjjbffbXhccXeedXfbfbffff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,7,5,8,4,8,8,6,8,32,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 01011100 1101 1101 1011 1101 0101 11011100 110101 0101 1010011 1101110 0010011 010111 1111 010101 10101 010101 1101110 1101010101 1111110100 10110100 010001010 01111100 100101 0101 1111 1001 01101 0100111001 01010111 1010101 10111 100100 100101 1111 1101 110101 011001 1000101 1011101 1111 11001 010101 011101 010101 010101 1010010 1011101 110010 1111 111101 1101 1111111 011111 1011 110110 110101 01010 010100 0110 01010 0110 01010 0101 1110111 11110010 01110101 1010101 111101 0101001101 110010100 11010001000 100100101 1011111 1110101 1111101 10111001 0101 110101 110100 110101 1011010 11110 10110 10010 110010 11011 010110 1101 0110010 01101 100101 01001 1110111 00101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, with, serves, for, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, the, who, her are repeated.
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- summary of Ode To William H. Channing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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