This is an analysis of the poem The Poet's Song that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: a baba cdcd dddd cbcb efef fdfd gdgd hchc eeee agag cici gjcj hkhk diXi dada alaX X iimmddb bnniidd Xiffffe effddccXlalaiill
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,7,7,7,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1 11110101 11011111 11110111 1101 01010101 01111111 11000111 0111 01001101 01110001 010100101 1101 01010101 11010101 01001111 0101 01110001 11000101 01011011 0101 110101001 01010101 11010001 1111 11011011 11010111 01110101 0101 11011111 1001001 01011101 0111 110100111 01010101 10110001 01001 11010101 01010101 11010011 0101 01010111 01110111 01010111 1111 11010101 110001010 10110101 11010 11110101 11011101 11110001 1101 11010101 11110001 11011111 0101 11010101 10100111 01010001 0101 11100101 010101001 11110101 1101 1 11110101 01010101 01010101 01011101 01100101 01010101 01100111 11010111 10010001 10010101 11010111 11010101 11010001 11000101 110100111 01011101 11011111 10011001 11010111 11010111 01010101 11010111 01011101 11011101 10110101 11010111 10010101 110100100 111011011 11011111 11010101 11011101 10110101 01001101 01010111 01010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 23
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 104
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; day, of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Poet's Song;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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