This is an analysis of the poem The Poet And The Muse that begins with:
Whither, and whence, and why hast fled?
Thou art dumb, my muse; thou art dumb, thou art dead,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff bbee bXff ggaa ggff ffhh dggii jjgg ccgX ffXX klmm ccnnXgglk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10111111 11111111111 10100110101 11110101 101010111 110100101 111110101 10010100111 1011110111 010100101 010100101 1110100111 1110100101 1100100101 10101001001 01010100101 011100101 10011000 101001101001 011101101 1101101111 00100100100 11001001110 1101101010 0010100101 10100111101 0111101010 1111011010 1010100101 0101100101 011110101 1101111101 0110 10101101 00111101101 111111111 1010111011 0101101101 00101110101 110100111 1011101111 111100111 1010110101 111100111 101110100100 110001101 0010100111 110111101 010101000 1111011110 110110101 11111111110 11100101110 111110101 010110101 0101101001 11101110101 1111111111 1110100101 1011111101 110010100
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, art, of, and, you, her, note are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, but are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Poet And The Muse;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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