This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Exposition that begins with:

AFTER all, not to create only, or found only,
But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdebbb fXb XgXhgiXihij hXi bihga igfi Xkdbdl jdXidhhihXhbbmXemhibbibb Xbhiino bbfXiXkXkicpliXhcl hjmXq jieoo cdjfX hhpgpoi ibiX gefX hiobd Xbb iei ckbqjjhiXbifhhej ehie gleX bXim eaph hboXhg rshtihfhl XgsXkbjh hibceXbcbhuhajefdfXh lgihrhelagXo g
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,3,11,3,5,4,6,24,7,18,5,5,5,7,4,4,5,3,3,16,4,4,4,4,6,9,8,20,12,8,6,4,4,4,6,3,2,4,6,11,4,6,21,17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011001101110 101010011001010 0101101001001001 0101010101001010 100110111101110101 001111010101101 11010100111 111001101110111 111101010 1111010101 11010101 111101110 111101010101 1100110101110100 100 1010000110101010110110 011010010101110111 110 0110101101010010110 111010 11010101001010101 01011 0100110 110001110101 101101001001010 1101011110100010 1111010111011010 10111 1101001010010 0101111011010100 1111010001 1101000101010 1101010100101010 010101 0101110111 1101010110111010 1100010 110101101100100101 0101010011100 111110111 1010011011 111011111010 0101010110001010 010 10010001010101000 101 10110101010001 10011101110010 101101011010101 10010011 11101001010100100 10011101101001011 1 10101001010010100100 101 0100011010110101 010010100111100 11 100101001101101001 100100101001011010 101001011011011 1011101100111010 11111101111101 110100101 0101001010101011 0111010111111 101 100101110110001 1101 1000100101 1101100111 111111011101000111 0101101001101011 01110101010 111111011101001000 010 01010010100011000 0100010010001110 01010101010101111 0100101101011 1010010 11001001010001001 110111001000 1001010101100010011 011010010 1100100111101000 1101111100010101010 101101000101 11101010101 111101110 0101010110111110 10100 0100110010111 1101110101 111110111101011 110001011101010 11011101010101 10110110011001 0111101101 1111110111010101 101101010010 101111010110101 1101010 1101011 1001101 101101010 101011010010 1100110101 11101010101 110101010011 01111100010 1001010 101111101111100111 0 01010101 01010 10010101101 1101010010010 1101110111010 10001111001001 11110101110 101101110111010 0100010101001 010101110100110 110101011 1111001101010 11011000100 11110101010 0100101001010 01010010 0100110111111101 10 0101011100101 1011110100111 011 11111111011001101 1 1110100111100111 1110101 1110110101010101011 1110110 1111010111110010 10 1110010011100100 1001011011 01011011110010011 01110100101110100 10100100 00101110101010100 010100100110100 1101100101 1011011001001101 1101011110101 100 001101001011001 1001 1100011100101 11010100 01111101001 110101010010 010100011001 010100110101 111101010010 0111101101 1011110001 01010010101011 100101010101001 10010101010101 010101010101 1011001010101110 10101010 1110110111110111 1111001 1001110001 01010101010 1101010001 11010111 0101011 010101110101 0101101001001100 10 10110100011100110 1 00101001001000001 001111010100101 011100110 0001010011 11111111101101 011 1101111001110111 0010011011 01010010100010111 010111011100111000 10 1001010001110101 0100100111110111 011101010010010 11001010011101101100 101 010101011111 0101011100010010 0111010011010 001010100100101010 101 11010101011001 1111110111 1101010111 1101111001110 011100101001 0100100111011 01100101110010 11010001000100 1101010010111011 100011010100 110011011100110 11 100101101 01001001 1100101110100 110011001010010 00101101001011010 10010011010010101001 0111010101010 101001 1110010111 11110010100 1101110011101011 1001 0100111111111 1101011001010101 110111 110101 011110010110010 1011011101010 11010100100110 11011110 011100010 11010111111 0101011 0101001101001110 111101110111 0111111111110 1001010 010101 11010010111 11111100011001 11 1110101101001101 110110101110011 010101100111 101100111110100 1011110 01101110111110 01101101011001 11010111010 011101010110 10011010011110101 1010010 0111001011 011001110101010 01001111010 11010001010111010 10100111010110 101101011101 1101000111 11010110110 01010001010100101010 101 1100111101111 1111110111110 1101 011101110100110 101000101101011111 10 00010010011 1111010 11111001 101111101100 1101110101 10010111001 1111111101111001 1 011101111111 11111010101 11110101 1111010101 1001001010101010 010111110110111000 10000 010111110111 11111111010010 101 1111110010101110 1 11011101010100 1 100101111111011 110101110011111 11010101 1101011101011110 1 111101001111100 1 110111011111011 0111 10001111110 111111011111 1111111101011110 11111101011101 0101010101010101 110101111101111 10100101001001010 111111111101010 111 110111000100111 10 1101110001100001 1111111011011 10011010101000 110101110110110 1 110101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 45
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 381
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 335
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, as, long, has, been, and, on, all, her, i, of, closed, gone, pass'd, world, its, same, than, you, be, your, thy, with, away, for, one, in, nor are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, long, i, with, your, thy, away, the, see, behold, and are repeated.

    The author used the same words she, away, behold 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 world, same, secure, thine, thee are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word bring 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 you connects the lines.

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