This is an analysis of the poem In The Manner Of Spenser that begins with:
So long estranged from every Muse's lyre,
And groveling in the tangled net of Care;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaacacc bdbddadaaefeffgfgg hihiididdjejeXkekk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,18,18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010100101 11000010101 110011101110 1001011001 11010011111 1110011101 1101010101 1101011101 110101110101 11010011010 1111010101 11011111110 1111000101 1111010101 1001010111 10111101111 1101010101 110111111111 1011011111 1101000101 11111010101 1111010101 1101100101 1101110101 1111010101 1011010101 11010111101001 1111011001 11001110101 1001010101 0011111101 1111111111 11010011100 1001011101 0101110101 100101010101 0101011101 0101000111 1011010101 1101010101 0101010111 11110010101 10010011101 0101011101 111101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 696
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; thy, and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words come, and, why are repeated.
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