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

Still o'er my mind wild Fancy holds her sway,
Still on strange visionary land I stray.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccaaccddaacccceeffccbbcceeeeaaccddggcc ccaahhff cciibbbb XfaajjcX bbXc eebbccaaee aaaa ggeeccggffbXeeffXekkccffllcceeXe aaee XX ccddeeffgg bbcc cc fXggaa eeaa bbeeccgg ccaaeeii cceeXeeefXccffaa eedd ddhhffccmmgg iicceehhaa ddggc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,38,8,8,8,4,10,4,32,4,2,10,4,2,6,4,8,8,16,4,12,10,14,4,28,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11011110101 1111010111 1111100101 11011101001 1011110111 1101010111 0101110101 1001110101 1011011101 01010010101 10110010101 1011011101 11011011101 1101100101 1001110111 11010000101 1011010111 110010101001 10110000101 11011010001 0101110101 1101010101 0111010111 0101010101 0111010101 1111110101 10010010101 1111010101 1111010101 1111110101 11010100101 1111010101 0111111001 0101011101 101001010111 101011000101 1111000101 1110010101 1101010101 1101111111 110001010101 1011110101 1101011101 11010101001 0101010101 1101010101 01010101001 11001010101 11011110110 1101010110 01010100101 01010100101 11010101101 1101010101 11010101001 11010100101 1101111101 1100110111 11010101101 1101010101 1111010101 0101010001 0101010111 1101010101 01010101010 1111010101 0101011101 1100010101 1011100101 1011010101 10110101101 1101111101 1011101101 1111010101 1101110101 00110101001 10110111001 1111110101 1111110101 1101011101 1101011011 1111010101 1011011101 1011110101 1001010101 0101100101 1101010101 0011110101 0101010101 11010010101 0101010101 1101000101 0101010101 0101000101 10011100101 1011010101 0001011101 0101011101 1001010111 01010101001 11010101010 1001110101 0111010101 0101010101 1101010101 1111000101 1101010111 1001010001 1101010101 1001100001 1001011101 1111010101 1111110101 01101110101 1101010110 1111110101 1111011101 1001010101 1111110101 1101010101 0101111111 111110000101 110010101010 010010101010 0101110101 1111011101 0101010101 0101110101 0101010101 1011110101 0111010101 1001110101 1101110101 1101010101 1101110111 1001010101 0111010101 10111010101 0100010101 11010011110 1111010001 0101010101 1100110101 1111110101 0101010111 1101110111 1011010101 11011010101 110010100111 1111010101 0101010101 1111010101 1101010101 0111110101 1111010101 0101111101 1111010111 1101011101 11001010101 1111010001 1100110111 1101010101 1111011101 1101010111 0111011111 0111010110 1101010111 01001010101 0101010110 11011111001 1111011101 1111001001 010100101 1011001110 1101110101 11011011101 0101011101 1101001101 1111010101 1101111101 1101011101 0101010101 1101010101 10111101001 0101010101 1111011101 0111111101 1011011101 0101111101 1100010011 1101011101 10101010101 01011110101 111010100101 1110111111 1011110110 1101010101 1111010111 11010101001 1101010101 11010111001 11010110101 1101111001 1111110101 101101101001 1100110101 1111011101 10110101001 0101011111 1101010101 1001110101 1101010101 1110010000100 1101010101 11010011001 1101000101 11011010101 11010010101 0111011101 1101010001 11010110001 110011000101 1111111101 101101110101 1101110001 0101010101 0111101101 111100001001 11001110101 11001010101 0111011101 1101010101 10011010101 1101010101 1101111111 11110101110 010100110101 0111110101 1100010101 01011001010 1101111101 1101110111 1111110111 10101110111 1101110101 0011011101 11110101001 1011110101 1101010101 0111011101 1101110101 1111010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 456
  • Average number of words per stanza: 77
  • Amount of lines: 276
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, her, their, in, nor, thus, or are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words still, a, o'er, his, the, where, here, thus, my are repeated.

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

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