This is an analysis of the poem The Visionary Boy that begins with:

Oh! lend that lute, sweet Archimage, to me!
Enough of care and heaviness... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXbaccAccccddeeffggeeahaaaddiieXcceejjggkkcccaaclgglcccjjXaammkkfflljccXeeceecfafanccnkkjjaanXcccclleellcceeaaaaddggccoonnllaappddaahhnenecckckcjjcccceenneeefqqfcclccXcceeckckcncnjjcnncbeeddiiekXekkkkllcccnnnnllccggibibdndnfckcncaabbaakjjkccaaggccccllkkaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 333,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110001 01011100 01010101 1101110110 110100101 11010100101 1111110001 1101011111 111110100101 11001110101 10110100101 01110101 01111101 111101001 01010110111 0101110101 1101000101 1111111101 1101110111 11010101 01011010101 1101010101 110111010100 1111110101 101101 11011101 11011101 11011101 1101010 0101110 010111 110101010101 11010101 11010101 11011101 01010101 11010101 11110011 11110011 011010111 11100101 010100101 01010100101 11000100101 1101001101 1001010101 111110101 1101010111 11011101001 1100010101 11001011111 100110000101 0101110101 0011000111 0101000101 1001011100 1001010101 11011101010 01110101 1101100101 0111110111 1101100111 1011010001 110101110111 0010101 001011 1010101 11010101 0100110101 110101 111101 110101010100 01001010111 11011101001 1101010101 1101010001 1101110101 110101010101 11010111 110111001 1011101 1101010111 1101010001 1101111101 1111010101 11010101001 10010101 010101010011 01011111 1010101 0011101 1110101 0101001010 11011100 1100101011 0011101 1101100011 1101010101 1101010101 01001011011 0100010101 010101010101 1101011101 0101110101 0101010101 1111010111 0111011101 011111101 11001010101 01110000101 01110101001 11001010101 1111010101 101101110101 1101010101 10111001001 0101101101 11001010001 11010011001 0101011101 01110101001 101001010101 1101011101 1111010101 0101100111 1011010101 110101001010 11011001010 1101010111 0101000101 1111010101 1101010101 111100010 00101010 11011101 11101 1011101 010101 0111101101 1111010101 0011010101 0111000101 11010110001 1101011101 1101010101 111101110101 1001100101 0111111001 1101010001 0101110111 0111010101 0101110111 1101010101 0111011101 100101110101 1101 1101110101 01111000011 1110110101 010101 0101010001 11001110101 1101010111 11010101 1111011101 1100101111 1111010110 1101011101 0111110001 0011110101 1111010101 1111010111 11010101 1101010001 11010101001 11010101 1111011001 0101 0101010111 100111 11010101 1111100101 01001100 1101 1110010101 1101 11010101 0101010101 1101010101 0100010011 1110001101 0101000101 1100011101 1111100101 10111001110 1011001101 1111000101 01010100101 111101 1101110111 11010101 111101001 01000101 01010111 111011010101 11010111 110101010 10010100 0011111 1110111 11011101 1111111 11110111 1111010101 110101110111 10111010 1010101 100101110 1010101 111010100 1010101 10101010 10010111 111101 010101 11010101 0101010101 11010101 110101110101 1111111 0110001 1010101 101101 11110111 0101000101 11010100101 1101011111 1101010100101 01010001 111100101 01000101 01110101 11010101 1110111 1000101 01001111 1010011 11010101 0101010011 1111011101 0101000101 1111010111 0111000101 11110101 01010100 10010101 11010101 01001101 11110101 01010101 01010101 11110101 11010101 11110101 11010101 010101001 01110101 11010101 11011101 010100101 11101101 1001111 10101101 11000111 0100001001 01110100101 1101010101 11010100001 1101010101 1101010101 0100101011 01001010101 0101001001 11000101010 01010111010 11010101 00111001 11110101 01010101 1111111 1110101 0110100101 01010101 11010101 11110100 1010101 11010001 1010101 1010101 010010101 01010101 1001110101 11010100101 0101111101 1001110111 1001011101 1101010111 1110101 1101001001 11100101 110100101 1101011101 110101110100 1111010111 1111111101 010110101 01100111 110100101 010001101 0101101 1011111 1010101 1010101 010111010 011101010 11010111 1111110 11010101 1110101 110101010 1010001 01010101 1110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 13074
  • Average number of words per stanza: 2297
  • Amount of lines: 333
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; and, more, of, she, with, her, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, shall, come, the, and, a, 'tis, on, as, still are repeated.

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