This is an analysis of the poem Upon The Saying That My Verses Were Made By Another that begins with:
Next Heaven my Vows to thee (O Sacred Muse!)
I offer'd up, nor didst thou them refuse.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bcddeeffff eegg hhddffiiffddee ddjjkk bbeebbggee hhggXfjjeeXggcbffdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,10,4,14,6,10,19,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011011101 1101111001 1101110101 1111011010 1101110111 1101001111 1111010101 0101010101 1101010111 0111011101 1111010100 1111010101 0100110101 1101010101 1110010111 110110101 11010011101 1111111100 1111101101 1101011111 1101101101 1000110100 1101011101 0111001011 010111011 1101110101 1110010101 1101110101 0101111101 1111110101 0101011001 1111110101 1101011001 1111110111 1101011101 0101111111 1010111101 1111100101 1101110101 11010101111 1101111101 0101110001 1111101111 000111010 11010101011 1110110101 0101010101 1101000101 01010011100 1101010101 1001110101 1001110001 1001110101 1101010101 1101110101 1101000101 11001100101 0101111111 11011101010 1101001101 1101110111 01001011010 1100010101 0101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 341
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; my, they, that, and, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
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