This is an analysis of the poem The Prelude, Book 1: Childhood And School-Time that begins with:
--Was it for this
That one, the fairest of all Rivers, lov'd... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdaedfgcagbfddfghbbifgjXdikjjkkl mnaXbjmkgajXcabjdjaXlbdjddabaddjadjbcahbXfjbgd ohdpidibmgbpfjdfabgqg lkbfifdjraknnjjmoajbjhXgbesbgXhkjjrkjricbgghpjjaabaddpbd akojjgijdakjdk gdbdahkjkc jibfgbkaidajnejbXdbdkg bXcndbbiadabbjkm gdhbnaddhonbsnb jdg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,46,21,56,14,10,22,16,15,20,46,15,8,15,55,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010 1101001101 0101001101 1001011101 1001110101 1101111011 11010010011 11110011101 1101010111 1001010100 1101000111 0111010101 0101010011 0100110001 1101010111 11010100010 0100110101 0111011111 0101001101 1101111101 11001110111 0101010101 0101110001 1111000101 1001111101 10010101110 1001011011 0101011111 0111010101 01001100101 0101101101 11001101101 1101010001 01010001010 1111111111 1001110111 11000111111 01010101100 1101011101 1111011111 1101010101 0111010111 0101010111 0101010101 1011010101 0101010111 1111010101 1101010101 1001010111 11010101001 110010010111 01010111101 1100010001 1101001010 011100101010 1000011010101 1101000101 0111110111 1101010101 1101010111 010000101 1111010111 1101111101 0101100101 100011101101 11011101001 0011010101 10001010101 0101110111 11010100101 1101011111 0101011101 11110001001 1101111101 0101011110 10001011111 11010011101 01110000111 1111011101 0110110101 01010110101 11000101001 01001011101 0101001101 0101001111 0101010100 01100100011 0111011001 0011110111 0101010111 1100111001 1111011101 1101011111 01010001001 0100110101 1101010101 01001010101 1101010111 1001001001 1001010100 1100111101 1101011110 1101000101 0110011111 01010101001 1101010001 0111010101 01110010101 1100010101 1101110011 0101110101 11100010101 0111011101 0101010001 1111011101 0101110111 10101110101 1111011101 1101010101 0101001111 1001011101 11010010001 0111010011 01001010110 0101000111 1111011101 0011110101 0101011101 0100010101 1101011011 1111010100 1111000101 1111010111 1101010101 1001110111 0100010011 10010001010 10001111101 1101010011 1101110111 0101010101 11010100111 1101010111 1001000111 1001011111 1101110101 11001110111 1100110111 1001110101 0011010011 1101010101 1101010101 0101010001 0111110011 1111011111 1101110101 1110010011 1011000101 11110010001 1101110001 1101010101 1111110111 0111100111 0101111101 1001110101 1011000101 0111010101 0100010101 110011100 1111011101 0010010001 11010110001 0101000101 1101010101 0101110011 1111010101 11010001001 0101011101 0101110111 1101011111 1101010101 1001010101 11110011001 0101010111 1101010101 0101110101 0101010111 0101111101 11010111001 1111011101 1101010101 01001010001 1111000101 01110010101 1101010111 1101110001 1101000101 01011100101 1011010101 00010111001 010101010101 10010011001 0101010101 1100011101 00010111000 110010011001 0101010001 1101011101 11110110001 11010011101 1101010101 0101010111 1101010111 1111010101 11110100111 01001000101 0110110101 1011011111 1111010101 1100010001 1101110001 1101010111 0101111101 11001111001 1011011101 1111010111 0101110100 01010101101 0100010101 0101011111 11011100001 11010111001 0101110101 0101000101 10010101010 1011110011 1101010011 1100011101 1101010101 01010111010 0111010111 1100010001 1001010111 11111101001 1011000101 0101000101 10010101010 0101110111 0111110101 0111010101 11011101010 1001111101 1001011100 1111010101 1101000111 0101001111 0100011101 1101110110 1100010101 0111111101 0111010001 1111110111 0111000011 1011010101 11010101110 1101010101 01010100111 01010101010 1111010101 0111000101 1101010111 1011010101 1001011111 111011001 01011000011 10101010111 11001100101 1101010111 1111010101 1101010011 1101110101 0100010101 1011010111 0101011101 0101010001 1100110101 1101010101 01111101010 01011010001 1101110101 1111010101 1101001101 0101110101 1100011101 11010100101 010010010101 1011010101 0101110101 1101010101 1111010101 1100111001 1101010101 1011010111 1111011101 1101010111 01001001111 110100111001 1101110001 1101010001 11010011101 1011110101 0111010011 1101000101 1011010101 0101001111 11010101001 1111011111 01000101101 0111110101 0001010100 0101010001 0101100101 0101010101 0100100111 0101010111 1101110101 1001010101 0111000101 1111010111 1000010001 0101000100 11010000101 1100110101 0100111111 101111110111 01010100101 11001101101 11010101010 1100110101 1111010101 1101011101 1101010101 1001010111 1101000101 1101010101 100010111 1101011100 1111010101 0101010111 1100010101 01001010100 0101011101 0110010101 00111010101 1001011011 1001100100 0110010011 0101010100 0101011001 0100010111 1001010001 1101010100 1100010111 0011010100 0110010111 1101010001 1101110011 0101000111 11110101001 1100010101 1101010111 0100010111 011100101001 1011001101 1001011111 0100111101 01110101001 1111101111 0101010100 11010010011 11011001110 1111011101 0100011111 0111110101 0101111101 0101010111 0111011101 1100111101 11010101101 0101011101 1101011111 1111110001 010011101010 1101111001 1110011001 1011101111 1100010011 0111011101 1010010111 1101010111 0101110100
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1080
- Average number of words per stanza: 188
- Amount of lines: 416
- 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, hurrying, of, on, with, ye, in, or, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a, the, of, it, by are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Prelude, Book 1: Childhood And School-Time;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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