This is an analysis of the poem The Wanderer: A Vision: Canto I that begins with:

Fain would my verse, Tyrconnel, boast thy name,
Brownlow, at once my subject and my fame!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccdd bbeeffgg bbgghhhhggccbXggbbdd ccii ggddgXbbaaiijj cckkbb iibbcc ddbbXgbb iiaacc cciikk ggbbiiaakk ggcc ccggggbbkkiiffbbbbllbbggcc ggaa ddkkkkbbbbbbkkbbbbhhccbbbbmmXkffggnnooXcnn iiccbbXgccbbll kkbbbbccbbnnll iigg ggddiidXddiie
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,20,4,14,6,6,8,6,6,10,4,26,4,42,14,14,4,24,14,58,4,10,18,18,16,10,32,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111100111 1111101111 1111011101 1101011101 11001110111 1011110101 1101000111 01001010001 1101110011 1101110011 10101010111 1001010101 1111011101 0101010101 0111010111 0101010101 11001001101 1001010101 1101010101 1001010101 10100100111 0111111101 1101000101 1101110101 11010100010 1110000101 1101110101 0101011011 1110110101 11001110101 1110011101 11011101110 1101011101 0111010101 1101001101 1101110101 1101010101 10001010101 01010111101 11010100101 0111000101 11110110101 11110010101 1101010101 0101010111 1101011111 10101110101 11110111100 1111010101 110011011101 10101010111 01011100111 0101110101 1101011101 01111100101 0101111001 11110100101 1111010101 1101010101 10010010101 1101010101 0110011101 1111010101 0101110111 1111010001 1101110111 0101010101 0101010101 0101110101 110010011111 0101011101 1101010101 11110101100 10101110101 1101110111 0101010001 1101011001 0101011101 0101011101 1101010101 01110101101 1101110101 10110100110 0101110101 1101110001 1101010101 1001010101 1111010101 1111101101 10010111001 1101110101 10010100101 11011100101 1111111101 1101010111 1101110101 10111010101 110110110111 1101110111 0110010101 1111010101 1111010101 0101111101 1101101101 0101110101 11011001001 1011110111 1111010101 1101010111 1111010101 10011101001 1111010101 1101110101 11001011101 1101011101 1101010101 0111010011 1011011101 10101010101 11010010101 1011011101 1111110101 0111010101 0011010101 1101010101 1101010101 1011101101 1111000111 1111111101 11010101001 1101010111 1111010001 1101110011 1011110101 0101011111 10111101001 11010100101 1111010101 0101110101 1101011101 10111111001 11010101001 1101010111 0101010101 1101001101 1011111001 11010010101 1001010100 1101100101 0101010111 1111011101 1101110101 1101010101 1101110101 1101110001 1101010101 1101010101 100011010101 11110101001 110010100101 1101011110 1101010101 1101010001 01001000101 11001110001 0101010101 1101010101 1011010001 1101010101 1101110101 11110101100 0101010101 1111000111 1111101101 1101111111 01010010101 1111010111 1011110011 0110011101 1101011111 111110011000 1111111101 01011110101 1110010101 1111111101 111101011 1110110001 1001010101 1101110101 0101011101 1001010001 1101010101 0111100101 1101011111 11011001111 1101110101 0101011101 110100101 1101000101 1111110101 1101010101 1101010101 0101011101 1001010001 0100010111 11001110101 1100110101 0101000101 1101010101 1100010101 1101010111 0101011101 0111011101 1011011110 0101110101 1101010001 1101000101 1011110101 0100010111 1001011001 0100110111 1111111101 1101110101 1011000101 0111010101 01011100011 1101010101 1001000101 1101110101 1111000101 0101011101 0101011001 11111111010 10110101010 11001010101 1001010001 0101010101 01000101001 1111010001 1101010101 1101011101 1101110110 1111000101 10110101010 0101110111 1111010101 1111010101 1111010001 01010110011 11110101101 1111100101 0101010101 11010011001 0101010110 11110101110 1101010101 0101111101 1101111101 0101010101 10010100101 1111010001 1111011101 0111010101 1101011101 0111110101 1011110001 0111111101 1101111101 1010111101 1101000101 0011011111 1100010101 1101010111 1011110101 1101011101 1101110101 1011010101 1111010101 1101111101 1011010101 1101010110 0101010011 1101011101 1010110101 10111110101 1111010101 1111000101 11011100101 1101010101 11010100111 0011110101 11110011101 11100010101 11010001001 1101010101 11011100111 1111011101 1111110111 1101110101 0100010101 1111010101 1100010101 1101110101 1101110101 1111011101 1101010011 1101010101 11101010101 110000100110 0101010101 1101010101 0101010101 11010101001 0101010101 1111110101 01100111010 1101011101 10101000110 1111111011 0101010101 1101011101 1111110101 01001101101 11010110111 1101010111 1101011101 1101110101 1011111101 1101010101 1011000100 0101110101 0101011101 1100011101 0111010101 1111011011 10010010101 0111000101 0101011111 1011010101 0111000111 1011010101 0111001101 11111100001 01100011101 1111011110 1001010101 0111110101 0111000101 1101011101 1101000101 11010101010 10011101000 11010111001 1001010111 1011010101 1101100101 0101011001 1111010001 11110010101 11010111001 11111100101 1100011101 0111011101 1101011101 11010010101 11010011101 1101010101 01011100101 1111000111 1101010111 0111010111 1101011111 1011000111 0111011101 11111010101 1101110101 1101100101 1111001111 110110111001 1110010101 1101110101 0101010101 1111010111 01111101001 01010110111 1100011101 1101111101 10101010101 1101011101 110101001010 1111010111 1101010101 1001110111 1101110101 1111010101 0111010101 0111110101 1101010111 0101010101 1011101111 0011010111 0100010101 11111100101 1100110101 1111111110 11010101001 1011001111 1111010101 0001000111 0101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 28
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 659
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • Amount of lines: 437
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, to, what, and, his, all, in, of, where, he, or, for, as, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, what, where, that, from, and, sees, tho', these, a, or, then, shall are repeated.

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  • summary of The Wanderer: A Vision: Canto I;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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