This is an analysis of the poem Heroism that begins with:
There was a time when Ætna's silent fire
Slept unperceived, the mountain yet entire;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddcceeffddgghhiijjkkjjllcckkccbbjjddkXddiiiibbcccckkiiiiiibbddmmiinnjjggoojjmmcciiii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 90,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101111010 110000101010 1100110001 11001110001 1101010101 0101110001 0101010101 1001001101 0101110101 0101010101 1101110011 01010100001 1111010101 11010011101 1101000101 11110001001 11010011101 01001010101 11111011001 1101010101 1011010001 0101010101 1101010101 11010001001 0101010111 1011001101 01010010101 1111010001 1111101101 1001110011 1101010101 1100010101 11010010101 1101010111 0111110101 1001010101 01010101001 0111010101 1101010101 1101010101 1111010101 1101010011 1101111101 1011110110 01010101010 0101010101 1101111101 1111110101 01011100011 10001110111 1101110111 1101010001 0101110101 1011011101 11001011111 0101010101 11010001001 0101010100 1011000111 0101010110 11001011111 1101111101 0101110001 0111011101 1001010011 1101011101 11010011101 1001010011 11010001001 11001001001 01010110101 1011010101 0101010101 01010101001 1011010111 1101010101 1111110101 1100100111 1101001001 0101010001 1101011101 0111010111 11101100101 1111001101 11010101001 11010010101 11001110011 1001010001 0111010101 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3888
- Average number of words per stanza: 687
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; her, in, and, your, their, of, d, where are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, again, who, and, where are repeated.
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- summary of Heroism;
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