This is an analysis of the poem To The Muse that begins with:

In your hidden memories
There are fatal tidings of doom... ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXab Xcde XXXf gfhh dibi ajXe bjXXXcagj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110100 11101001 01110010 000100100 10101010 11110001010 1111101010 01000110 111111 11101010 111101 1000101011 11101011101000101 1111011 11110110100 11110111 11111001001 1111101 10110111011 1110101 110100100 110111001 001001110010100 0110110 11001001100 10101 10101010100100 101010101 11101010 0101101101 101010111 101001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; you, of, than, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, that, for are repeated.

    The author used the same words and, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of To The Muse;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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