This is an analysis of the poem Young Laughters, And My Music! that begins with:

Young laughters, and my music! Aye till now
The voice can reach no blending minors near; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba ccdeed
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 1101110111 0111110101 10110100101 101110101001 10011111111 1101111111 010111011101 1101111111 1100110111 11001110101 1101010110 1111111101 111011001001 11010101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 328
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; spring, soon, too are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word too is repeated.

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