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

Thus free our social time from morning flows,
Till rising shades attempt the day to close.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccddeeff ccddaaaagghhaaaa ddggeeccbbffbbggccffddeeaa ddcciiaajjeeee kkhgllgXaa aaXgddeeaaggllaaddaaddggllddgg ffllcchhllddmmkkeennmmmmeeccaa ccccaaaa llaaaallXl ggooeeXeggkkee lliiXXaaeeaallgggg Xammeeeeddmmeeaaffccaabb ccaa llllmm lleemml
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,16,26,14,10,30,30,8,10,14,18,24,4,6,18,24,14,8,4,6,12,4,14,4,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111010101 1101010101 1111010101 1011011111 1101110101 0101010111 01010101001 1101110101 0101010101 1001010101 1101110101 1111000101 10101010101 11010101001 1011010111 1101010101 0011010111 1101000101 1101110101 0011011101 11011100010 0101010010 1111000101 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 1101011111 01101010101 1111010111 1111010101 11010111111 11010000101 1011111101 1111010101 1111010101 01010101001 1011011001 1001010101 1110010101 1011010101 1011010111 1111110001 1101011101 1101011101 01010010111 0101010101 1101110101 101001010101 1011010101 0111010111 10001111001 1101010101 1011010001 010010110101 1101111111 1101011101 1101011101 1001010101 1101011101 1111010101 0101010101 10010101101 1001111111 10010101001 0111010101 1111000101 1010011101 0101011101 11011101010 10001110101 11010101001 0101010101 0111110101 0111010101 0101011101 1001011101 10110100101 1111110101 010010111010 10011101001 01100101001 1101010001 10101100101 11001010101 11011001010 1101110101 0101100101 1101010101 1011010101 0111011001 1101010001 0011010001 1101000101 1111010101 1011010101 1111000101 1101010101 11111000101 1111010101 1111000101 1101010111 0111010101 1101111101 110100111001 01110010001 100110101001 0101011101 01001010101 1011110111 1111011101 1101100101 1100011001 10110111010 11010001010 1111111101 0101010101 01110100101 1101011101 1100010101 1101010111 1111011101 0011110001 1101011101 1111001101 10101010101 10110101001 1011110101 1101010111 1111011101 1101010101 10010100101 1001010111 1100110101 1001100101 1111110101 1101111101 1101110101 1011110101 01001010101 0101010111 1111010101 1101110101 11110001001 1111001101 1111010111 1111010101 1001011101 1111010101 1101001101 11010001001 1101011011 0111011101 1011110101 10001010101 0101010111 1111010101 0101011101 1101010101 1011010101 1011011101 1011011110 1001110001 1111111001 11011100111 1111010001 1101110101 11010010111 1101011001 1001011001 1101010101 1011010101 11010010001 01001111101 1101110101 001101001001 1111010101 1101010101 1101010101 0111010101 11011100101 01010110101 1101110101 1101011101 11011101010 1101111101 0111010101 11110001100 11001001101 0101001101 1011110101 11010101001 1101010100 1011000101 0101110101 1101010101 0101011001 1111111111 0101010101 11111010101 1101010111 1101110101 1101010101 1111010101 1101110101 0101011101 1011010101 0101011101 11010101001 1101110001 1101110101 1101010101 1101100001 1101110111 11010010101 1111110101 1010100101 0101110101 0111010001 01010101011 0101010101 11110100011 1101010101 11110101 10010110001 11010110001 0101011101 0110010101 01010111001 1010010101 1011011111 1101010101 1110001001 1011001101 0101011101 1101011101 1011110101 1101100101 0111100101 1101110101 1111010111 1001111111 1101011101 1011111101 1101110101 1001110101 1111010101 11010010101 0111000110 1111010001 1111010101 1101010101 1101110101 0101011101 1101010101 1111010101 10111100101 11010100101 11010010101 0101010101 01011010101 1101110101 1101011101 11110101101 1101110101 1101010011 0100010101 100010101010 1100010101 1111000111 0011100101 1101001101 1111111101 11111010101 11010010101 1101010101 1110010111 1011010101 0100001101 0101111111 11001110101 0111110001 1111010101 0011010101 0101110101 01001010101 11011010101 1101011111 0101110101 0100111101 1011010101 01011111101 11010101001 1101010101 1111010111 1101010101 11010101010 0101011101 10101010101 101101110001 0111000101 1101010101 0111010101 0101110101 1001011001 0101011101 1111010101 1101000101 11010001001 1101011101 0101010101 1101010101 10011111001 1111110101 11010010101 1111011111 0111010111 1111100110 1111011101 1101010101 1101000101 0101010001 1101000101 0101010111 0101010101 11010100101 11110101001 0111111101 011000100101 1111001101 0101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 596
  • Average number of words per stanza: 100
  • Amount of lines: 354
  • 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; her, in, with, to, and, his, thy, i, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, while, or, can, then, for, ye, if 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.

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