This is an analysis of the poem Music: An Ode that begins with:
WAS it light that spake from the darkness,
or music that shone from the word,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbXcXcXb dedXfbfXd beaeXgggae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,9,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110010 11011001 101110001 00110111 10111000010 0101111 111001001 1100111 11101101 10100111 10100111100100 111101001 10111 10101101 0100111 101001011 10110101 110101110 110001001 101111 10100101 111110 1100101 1010010 11100101 10110111 111101101 1010011011010 0101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 409
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, of are repeated.
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