This is an analysis of the poem The Progress Of Poesy that begins with:
Awake, Aeolian lyre, awake,
And give to rapture all thy trembling strings.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaccddeXff gbbgffhhddii iieeibbdjdjfifikk jeejkXbbiiff hllhhhjjbXll mmXbmnnehehobobjj ghhghhffiibX lXilbbjjffpp fXeefjjefefeieijj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,17,12,12,17,12,12,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110101 11010111001 0100010001 0101110111 010101101 11110111 1011010101 1010111 1101110101 11010110 11010101 011101110001 11000101 1001110101 01010101 1101011101 11010101 11010001 1101011101 1010101 0111010101 01011101 100110101 010001110001 1010101 1001101 10100101 0101111 11001 010111110 10101010 10101010 10100111 01101010 11101001 1101110101 10011010101 0101110101 0101110101 10011110101 0101010110101 11011101 1111000101 01110101 1111000101 01011101 11010101 1111010101 1110101 0101110101 11010101 11010101 100111110101 01010101 11011011101 01110111 010100100101 11010101 01010101 1101010101 0110101 11010011101 0110001010 10011101 110001110101 11110101 11110101 11110010 1110101 0100101 111101010 11001010 11101010 1010101 10111010 1010101 10110101010 1111010101 01110101010 1101110001 1101010101 1111001110101 10011101 0111110101 11110101 0101010001 01010101 11010111 10101111101 1010101 1111010101 01010101 01011101 1101010101010 11011101 0101010100 010010101 1101010111 010101001 11010111 1111001101 1010101 01110101001 110010101 110001001 010101110101 1010101 111010010 1000101 1111111 111111 110111010 11111010 10111010 1010101 10001010 1010101 1101010111 1111000101 010111000001 1111110101 0101000101 010011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 524
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 123
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; of, and, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word now is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Progress Of Poesy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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