This is an analysis of the poem Broken Music that begins with:
The mother will not turn, who thinks she hears
Her nursling's speech first grow articulate;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaacca dXdede
- 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: 0100111111 0101110100 1100010101 1101011101 1011011111 11111100101 0101111111 10110101011 1111010101 0111010100 01111110001 1101110101 11000101101 0101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 310
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
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