This is an analysis of the poem The Sick Muse that begins with:
My impoverished muse, alas! What have you for me this morning?
Your empty eyes are stocked with nocturnal visions, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcacXba ddX bbc X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,3,3,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010111111010 110111001010 01111101010 11010011010 0110010110 1111111011 0110010011100001 101110100010110 1111101010100 1110111011100 11110110101011100 101001001100 110101001 10101101010 0101100100 01011001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 18
- 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; that, of, your are repeated.
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