This is an analysis of the poem A March Minstrel that begins with:
Hail! once again, that sweet strong note!
Loud on my loftiest larch,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cccc dede fcfc gXga aeae hdhd fafa didi Xjhj klkl kdkd gmgm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011111 111101 110001101 110011 10111111 1101110 11010101 1101010 10011101 1100111 11010011 1110001 11011101 101101 1100110111 101111 0101000101 0111001 101100011 110111 101011111 010101 010101001 1100001 11110111 011101 11010111 101011 01011101 101101 11110011 111101 01001111 010101 1111111 0100101 10110110 011111 11010111 1010101 011100001 010101 110100111 110101 11010101 111001 10111111 101111 11101101 0101111 1010111 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; thy is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thy is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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