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

While thus a mind humane, and wise, he shows,
All-eloquent of truth his language flows.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccddaaeeffccaabbaaaXaaggaa bbccbbggbbbb aaaahh aaee aXcc aaccbb aaaaffcc bbee hhee cciiaaXjaabXaaXjhhaaiiddee bbddaaffkkccaaddbblleehhmmccffhhccjjaa nnjjeeggeecckk Xjccccffccbbcchh eeeehhbbbb eejjhhdd aaeehXaaccjjaaggeeaajjoohhjjggmma
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,12,6,4,4,6,8,4,4,26,38,14,16,10,8,58,10,8,22,58,12,34,24,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101011111 1100010101 1101110101 1101000100 1111010001 1101110001 1011011101 0101110101 1111111101 1101000101 1101111111 1111110101 1101011101 1101010101 1111001101 1101000101 11010111001 1111011101 1101010101 1001110101 1101010011 0101010101 0101011101 1101110101 1100010101 1101000111 1111010001 0100010101 01010100111 11001000101 11010100101 0101110101 1101101111 1101010101 111010101 0100010111 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 0101110001 11011010101 1100010011 1101010101 1001011101 10100010101 10110011010 1101010101 101101110001 1111010101 100010011 1101000101 0101010101 0101011111 1100010101 1001100111 1111010010 1011010111 0101010001 11011010101 0101010101 1101011101 1101110101 1110000101 11110010101 1111110101 0111011001 01111011001 11001010101 10010111001 10010101001 1001010101 1111010101 11011101001 1011010101 0101110101 1111111111 0101010011 0111011101 1101010101 1011110101 1111010101 11001011101 1011010101 1001010101 1011010101 01000101101 0111110110 1101110101 0101110101 11001010101 1101001101 01010001100 1001110101 1010110001 0011000110 1100010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101110101 0100101111 0111010111 0111110101 1101010111 11101010101 0011001101 11101010101 1101010111 0111010111 1001010101 11011010101 0101000101 1101010101 00110110101 0111010101 0101010111 1101010101 1101010101 1001011101 1101010011 11110101001 10110110101 1011011001 1111110111 11110101001 1111011101 0111010111 1111111111 1111110101 1110110101 11010101001 1100111101 10101010101 1001010011 1101100101 11101011111 11010101101 11111100101 10110100011 1111010101 0111011101 0101010101 0101010101 1011000101 1011110101 1110111101 1101010001 1111110101 1101011101 1101010111 0111010101 1101010111 1101110101 010010100111 01001010101 1011101001 0101011101 01011111011 0101010101 1111110110 1111111101 01001110111 1101010011 10111010101 1101010101 01111000101 1101110101 110101101 1001110101 1101011101 1111001101 1101001101 11110100110 1110110001 1101010101 0101010101 0111010101 0101010111 01001010101 10110110101 11010111001 1101010101 11011100101 11010001101 1101011101 1101110101 1001110111 10110101001 1101011101 1101010101 11010110001 11011001001 1011110101 10110010101 1111011101 0101010101 1001110001 0111110111 01010001010 0100110101 1011001101 0101010111 1101111101 11010010101 1101010001 0101010111 1101110101 1111010101 0101010101 1101110101 1011110101 1101010111 1001111101 1101010101 0111010001 0111111101 1001110111 1111010101 1101010101 1111011101 1111110101 1101110101 110111101001 1111010101 1111000111 1101010101 1101010111 11110100101 10011101001 1111110101 11100101001 1101010101 10111101001 1101000101 1101010101 11010011101 1011010101 1101011101 1101100101 01110111001 1101001101 1101001101 1111110101 1001010101 1111000101 1101010101 1101010001 010101010001 1101010101 1101110101 01100110101 0101110101 1101010111 1111110001 1101111101 1101110101 01100110101 1101100111 1101010101 1001010111 01010110101 1001010101 1101010001 11001111101 1101110111 1011111101 01001110101 1001110101 0101011110 1101110101 1111010101 1001011111 0101101101 1111110111 11111100011 010100101100 1111010101 1100011111 1111010101 11001011101 10001111001 111011101001 10110111001 1101110101 10110101100 0101110101 1001110111 11110010101 1011110101 1101011101 1011110101 1001001111 0101110101 1110111101 1101110101 11111111001 11010010001 1111010111 11001010011 0101110101 10001010001 01011101101 0011110101 1001111111 11110101101 1101110101 1011110111 1010010101 1011110101 11111101001 1011110101 1111110011 1111010101 1111111111 1111010011 1101110101 1101110101 1111011101 1111110011 1011000111 1101111001 1011100111 1101111101 1111010101 10100111001 0111010101 0101110101 1101010101 1100010101 1111110110 01001010101 1111111101 1101110101 0111111001 0111001001 1111111101 11001010111 1111000111 1011110101 1111110101 0101111101 1111110011 1001110001 1111100101 1101011111 1111010101 110100111001 10110100101 01111111010 1101110101 11001110011 11110010101 11010011011 1111110101 1101010101 1011010101 1111111101 0011010101 1101000101 11110100101 1100110101 0111110101 11100010111 11001111101 1101000101 1111010001 0101010100 1011010101 110111101 1110111101 101101010101 0111000101 1101010101 0101000101 10011101001 1101010001 1001010011 1111111101 011111001001 11010100111 1111010101 1011000101 1101111001 1111010101 1101010111 11010101001 1101110101 11010010101 1111010101 1111011101 11001010101 1111111101 1100110101 11010101001 1001010101 1111111101 1111110111 10011010101 0111101111 1001110101 1100010101 0101010101 1111011101 1101110101 0101110001 0101110110 1101110101 1110110111 1101111101 1101110101 1101010101 0111000101 0101110001 01001110101 10110110001 11111100001 11101010101 1101010101 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 23
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 812
  • Average number of words per stanza: 140
  • Amount of lines: 440
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; his, all, of, two, my, her, that, in, to, and, here, she, thy, he, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, again, too, then, why, that, here, now, by, and, where, who, i are repeated.

    The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word eye 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 away connects the lines.

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

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