This is an analysis of the poem Passage To India that begins with:
SINGING my days,
Singing the great achievements of the present,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcdacb Xabbceb fa dgXaaaeeebdabh Xbiajkl hakXc Fedfecgda mnXhamcfdfXggbafXgliXdaacof mpm FXmo gghbaaqgkeXb gngapaeo hXangdr eaqcfaa dXd bifXma addddXodfbagkm hbaXhcdcdd Fee danXchfcglfXXfaXdbj oaehh dnXda XXrqbmdX aqsean bgma XeegXe lcacsXde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,2,14,7,5,9,27,3,4,12,8,7,7,3,6,14,10,3,19,5,5,8,6,4,6,8,4,2,8,10,3,6,7,5,6,4,7,2,7,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011 10010100001 1001110101 110100011001010 00110101001 011010111 011101001010 11001010111 010101 010110001011 01010101011 01010010001 1100011011011001 100101011001011 11 1001100101101 10110100 100011010010010 110111001 11011101010 111100110100101 01101001001001 011010110 01010010010010 11101011011010101 1110100101001001 10010 110110010100111010 01 10010010100101 1111011001101 110111 1001001 11111110001 01001010111 01000110110 010100101010010 01000101011 010010010 010111 1101000101 110111010101 111111010101 1011111111 100100 11110101 1101010010101010 110010010010100100 1 110110111011010 10010 11100100101010 00101001 010110011111101 111011100001011010100 1001 110100101100101100 11100 1101010101101011 10 110100100101010000 1 1101001110100110 10 110100111110010100 110 110100111000100001101 10110110101010 1101001010101110 10001010100 11010110110101 1101111101011010 110110011011100010 11 110011001011101 010010010111 101111010100101 10011110100110 1001000101 010110110 1101111 10010111011 0111010111 100100 10010010101001011 10111011011 11110001001 011100101 101001010111010010 10 01010101110111 11 0101000101010 011001011 010101010010 1111011101000101 11 11011101011 11000111010 11101001 10110010010110 1001111010100010 0100101001111101 01 0101011110100101 0010010110010010 11011101011 100100100101010 101101111001001001 100101000101010 0100101010001010 1 01101001100010111 101101 1111110010 11011101010 1101000101 110011001011010100 1001010101001010 10101 110101 110101010111010 11 0110101101 10011111110101 1001101101101011 100100101001000100 01001000 100110101011 01101111001 111110110011001010 10101 111101010101 101010100100010101 1110101110101111 10101 0110101010110 010101 10001101000010101010 0101010 1101101110010 1110010010110 10111010010111 011011101010 1111011111 10010010 10010010010110 111010110010101 11110101100110110 1 100101001110011 0110010011100100 10 111100101 100100 10101001101001 01001010011101 110101110 011100100011 01001010101110 101 111001001001010101 010101010111010010 111101101011010100 001011101010 01010000010100101 101101001011010110 10 10110100111010100 010100010100 010100101010001000 10101 011001011010100011 10010110001001 0101100011011 10111011010 001010101011 010100010101 10100010011010010 01 011100100010 111111 01010101001010 001011101011 100101001010101 1000101 10110 10011101110 10100111010001 1001010101 0111010100101 01001001011 0010100001101001 01010010011 100011110010010 000101100101001 10110011000011011 010 010001011 110101110 1001110101 11110111110 0101000111 0101010 1110010111011 110000000101 0101000101 01010101 1101010100100 0101010 1111110 111111 1011111101 10101111010001 01010111010111011 11 1001101101 10110101010 0111001 11010111011101 01010 11110111 11110111110101 1001000111110 11110111 10111101110001 1101011111110 101 110111010100 1111110111110 1111011001 1111010101 11100 10010101 1001101101011000 11001000100010 11010001010011101 11010111010110111 101101111101101 11110001110 1100101010100 0101010001 11111101011101 011 11110101001010 1011010101 110101011111 111101011111001 11110100011 1101101011 110101010001 101111 101111001 111111110101 1101010111111 1100011101000101 11010011010111 11010101 10001111101011 011110010101 01010101100101 11010101010101 0101010001 10011100 11110011111 11100101110011 1001110111 10010101010 1111011 100111111100 1001010001110010 110001010011010 11 10011100 11000111 011100011101110 01111101110011 011100111 1101111111 111110011 11111111101100 1001 10010010011011 01111100010 101011111001 1111111001101 11110011011011011 10 11110110101101 1111011010 101101010111011 11111100111101 1101010111 1111 110101 11011111110101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 42
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 364
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 309
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; singing, past, of, to, be, you, and, i, see, again, with, who, earth, after, all, on, his, we, thee, thou, how, what, o, passage are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words singing, the, o, you, i, again, who, after, all, he, year, his, thou, what, passage, of, have are repeated.
The author used the same words o, passage at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines past, thee, all, these are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word past at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase the connects the lines.
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