This is an analysis of the poem Invocation To The Social Muse that begins with:
Señora, it is true the Greeks are dead.
It is true also that we here are Americans: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcd aef adX Xbf bbb bbX ged eh c fbX XXb igj kbb hXk iXj b aXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,2,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100010111 0011011110100 11100110100100100 1110111111 11110110110101 1101110101100 11001001101010 10100111101001 11001101010011 11010101100 101010011110 1001011011 01010010010010 001010100010010 11011010011010 1111000100110110 0101001010010 110110011001 010100100110 1111001010010 111001101011 101001010101 110111 11010011 1010111110001 11110110111010 10100110111100 11101001101 101011100100 1010111101100 10010010011 1111100111011 11101101001100 10100110111110 011001001110 10101100101 10010010010010 0100101100101 10101111011110 101101101110 10011011011111 11111011101 101101101101010 1010010011011 101110001001001 0101001111010 0010010110011
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, and, with, to, one, they, his, how, of, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, does, they, how are repeated.
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