This is an analysis of the poem Song Written To A Hindoo Air that begins with:
Ask not, whence springs my ceaseless sadness,
But let me still the secret keep:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab ccdddd efef ggccee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1110111010 11110101 111101010 1011011001 11111101 110110101 01111101 01110111 11010101 11110101 111111011 1010101 1100101011 0011111 11010111 10010111 11010101 11011111 11001101 110011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and is repeated.
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