This is an analysis of the poem Genius that begins with:
Woe unto him! the child of this sad earth,
Who, in a troubled world, unjust and blind,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdd ecfcgegefbh bhbibii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,11,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010011 1001010111 1101000101 0101010101 1101110101 100101000010 0001011101 11110111010 101001110010010 1101001110 1101011101 0101110100 1101010101 1101010001 1101011111 10111111101 100100101001 0100101010100 11010001001 0101010101 0011111101 0101010100 1101000101 10010010011 1011110111 1101000101 1101010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 390
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Genius;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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