This is an analysis of the poem Book Twelfth [imagination And Taste, How Impaired And Restored ] that begins with:
LONG time have human ignorance and guilt
Detained us, on what spectacles of woe... full text
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- Stanza lengths (in strings): 43,31,13,5,81,34,129,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
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- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2011
- Average number of words per stanza: 352
- Amount of lines: 336
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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, to, that, of, in, her, i, more, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of, or, the, upon are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines see, man, give are repeated).
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