This is an analysis of the poem Music that begins with:
Thou, oh, thou!
Thou of the chorded shell and golden plectrum! thou... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbbbbccbaaddeeddffggdhidhhiggggjji
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 37,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 100101110101 0011110101 10110101 1001001010111 1111010101 1010001 01010010101 1001110001 1100101 0111010111 01000111 0100110101 1101010101 01110111 1011100101 1101001 010111 1001 10110001 110101 111001 1101011111 1101001 1001010100 1101011101 100111111001 110100 110100 110000111 1101011001 1101000111 1101 0110000111 010111 1101 0101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1214
- Average number of words per stanza: 216
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thou, or, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thou is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase thou connects the lines.
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- summary of Music;
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