This is an analysis of the poem Music's Empire that begins with:
First was the world as one great cymbal made,
Where jarring winds to infant Nature played. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa XXbb ccdd eeff gggg ddhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101111101 1101010101 1101010101 0101110101 1011010101 110110101 1101001101 1101010111 1100101101 1101010101 0101000101 00010010001 100110011 1101001100 11000111010 01110101010 1100010001 0011010101 01110100001 0101010111 01001111101 1001010011 1111010001 1011010001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; to, of are repeated.
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