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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  • Rhyme scheme: abacdefdgggchbdggcgaijkggfeaclggchgfgcdlmac dhgniadgddjmhooXjfgadaddoaffghX jepdaidgXgdqd jcabd jbgggkbaafXgfqgddjdcrofgggmchagdmdkeddjagaXglfmcXdqgaasencdgaagjkjbdelcadXdgdeccd igdXdakddggaXhradcaXoladgqgfemefdl kfaaadgdaafchbccaldcgcdXjjigggeakdjXmlddXg
  • 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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  • summary of Book Twelfth [imagination And Taste, How Impaired And Restored ];
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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