This is an analysis of the poem The Prelude, Book 2: School-Time (Continued) that begins with:

. Thus far, O Friend! have we, though leaving much
Unvisited, endeavour'd to retrace... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdeXfghgaiejehegkleemnopqhhglrdslggggglqtlehh gepheeblhXdhfdggnbdjcofgeegbjag odhggsfhgeXcgkhgghdt fhgegoggsghfeahrbghdcab dqednhebhfggsqgXhsegdtg Xtgheddedeggheegstdghelgefgadselgtdl ghddXentdubqtbnshkqtef etfleehsagtgdtheinadhghggehakahebgububfftr
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 47,31,20,23,23,36,22,232,50,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111111101 10001000001 1110101101 0111011101 0101110101 1001011110 1100111011 0101010111 0101010011 0101010111 1101010101 1111010101 01001011111 01010010100 0101011111 1101111011 01010010111 0101100101 1011110101 1101000101 0101010101 1011010101 0111111011 1111001111 0111010101 01000100010 0100010101 1110011101 0100011111 1111110011 1011110011 1100010011 1011010011 0101111001 0111010101 1100111101 1011010101 1110111101 0101011111 0111111001 1101110101 1011011111 1111010101 0111011111 0101111111 1101000101 0101010100 11010010111 0101010101 11000100010 1101010101 01001000001 01001010101 11001011101 1100011101 0101101101 0101010100 0101100101 1111010001 1111010101 0101100101 0100010101 1101110101 11110101001 0101000101 1101010101 1100111100 1100011101 10110010101 10110001001 01000010101 11001100001 0101010001 1011111111 1000001011 0101001100 1111010111 01100100101 11001111001 1111110101 01001011101 0100111101 0101010111 11010001001 01001001101 0100110101 1101010101 0101010001 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1110010101 0101010111 0101110101 1101010101 11000110001 0100011101 10111000111 0101010101 1010010001 10101100001 0101001101 1101010100 0101010101 11001011001 1100110101 0101110111 0101110101 11110101101 11100000101 0101010100 1110110101 0101011001 1100011111 1001010111 0101010101 1101010011 0011011101 10010011101 0101010001 1101011001 1011011110 1101100101 1101010100 1111001101 1100010111 0100100100 01010101010 1011010101 0111110001 110010110011 0101110001 1100110101 11001001101 0101010100 11101101001 1001010100 0100010101 1111110101 1101011100 0100111101 1101000100 1101000001 0101010100 0101100101 11000110011 1001111101 0111010111 01010101111 111001001001 0111010111 11010001111 01111000111 0101000101 1111010101 10110101010 1111001101 01001000110 1111001101 11010011101 01001111111 01001011011 0100100001 0101001101 0100110101 1101011111 1100011101 0011010111 01011101010 1100010100 1100011101 0111000101 1100010001 0101011101 01010101001 11011101110 01010010111 1011111101 1100010111 0101110101 0101011100 1110011111 1100110101 11101101100 1100111101 11001010101 1100010111 0101110100 10110010101 1100110101 1111010011 0100011111 1011010101 0100111101 11110011111 0111001101 0100111101 10111010101 1101011111 0101010111 1111010101 1100010101 1101011011 0101011101 1101010100 11010010001 11110001010 0101010111 01010001001 0101000111 01001001101 010010000101 01010011001 1011110101 01110001001 0101010111 10011000101 0101010111 1100010011 1110010101 1110111001 1101011111 0101101001 1101010001 1101110011 01010101001 0101001101 0101000101 1101000100 0101110101 01011101111 1100010101 1100111011 0011010001 0101100100 0100010101 11010101001 1001010101 0111011101 1101011101 1011111111 0101010101 1101111111 0101011101 0101010100 1101000101 10111111101 10111010101 1101000101 0100110001 10111111111 11010110111 0101100101 1101010101 0110101011 1111111011 1111101100 1100110101 10011011011 0101011101 0001010101 11001100101 1011010101 1101001101 1101110101 0101110111 1101011111 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  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2301
  • Average number of words per stanza: 398
  • Amount of lines: 489
  • 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; to, and, with, of, or, our, i, we, which, babe, his, in, still, what, hence, my, more, that, all, ye are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, and, or, in, i, remembering, with, o'er, if, the are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines soul, mind, still 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 2: School-Time (Continued);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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