This is an analysis of the poem The Philosopher's Oration: A Faun's Holiday that begins with:
Meanwhile, though nations in distress
Cower at a comet's loveliness ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcddeeffXaddgghhaXffeehahhddddXiaaX XaajjkkbcddffddllhhddaacbiiXddaallffhaffjjll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 37,44,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110001 1010101000 10010111 10111100 01011101 11011101 10010111 01011101 110101101 01110101 11110101 01010111 11010101 11111111 110100110 100101110 11010011 11010101 11111100 11011000 1101000111 11011101 01011101 01110111 11011001 01010101 10110111 101011101 11111101 10110101 11101111 010101101 01011010 01110101 00111101 11110101 01110101 11110100 010101001 11011101 01111111 11111111 11111101 11001101 11011101 011100100 11010101 01110111 11010101 110101101 11110101 11011101 110010101 11011101 01111001 11111011 01100101 110011111 10100101 01110011 10010100 010011110 10110111 00110101 11111111 100000001 110011001 11110101 11110101 11111101 001101001 11011101 11110111 10011011 110000101 1011010 10011111 1110101 11100101 01111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 970
- Average number of words per stanza: 174
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; whose, of, too, and, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words whose, of, and are repeated.
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