This is an analysis of the poem Fragments - Lines 0237 - 0254 that begins with:

To you I have given wings, on which you may fly aloft
Above the boundless sea and all the earth...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXcXbXcXXdeedaae
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01111011111101 0101011101 011111010001 1101010001010 1001110111 010111000110111 0101110101000101 1101011001000 1101110110111011001 010011111000 1010111101111010 10100101101 1101010101101 10100100101001 011110100111111100 01010111111101 0111011101 011110110100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1029
  • Average number of words per stanza: 190
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, of are repeated.

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  • summary of Fragments - Lines 0237 - 0254;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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