This is an analysis of the poem Music that begins with:
Move on, light hands, so strongly tenderly,
Now with dropped calm and yearning undersong,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaabba cdedec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111110100 1011110100 111110001 1101010101 11101111111 11011000101 1100110101 0111111100 1011010111 11100011101 1011011111 11110100001 1111110101 1011001101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word now is repeated.
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- summary of Music;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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