This is an analysis of the poem Apollo Musagete, Poetry, And The Leader Of The Muses that begins with:
Nothing is given which is not taken.
Little or nothing is taken which is not freely desired,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bc Xb bd b ce bcc ecfc gb fc gX XehX gbX ijeh bkbbl dckf Xfhica c bXci X biXeil cjkcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,1,2,3,4,2,2,2,4,3,4,5,4,6,1,4,1,6,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010110 1011001010110010 1010110 101111011111000 1011001000101010 10010011000101010 11 1010100101101 1011001101010110 1110101 101001000100010 101000100101000100 0010010100 10011010111101100 1110110100 1010110 10011011010100 1010100011011110 101 01101010111010010 0100 10101010001010110 10111 1110110011110000 01110100 0110101001100 01001101001010 00010011011110010 100111110011010 10100 11010110001000100 1110101110 111001110010 1100101100101 01010101111011 1101 10110111010110101 1001 100010101010110 111001111011 111001010001010010 11000110100101 1101 110110111101 1111001 0101101001001101 11010101000101001010 00101010000100010 111011011010 010101101011100 110010100100101 1 1011010110010 10101110 0101011001101001 11110100100101 1110100100101 11110001011010 010101100101111 111101000110101 1000110 1010101101100 11010101011010 011010101011 01010101101110 111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; not, in, and, to, be, as, he, have, would are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he are repeated.
The author used the same words and, hence at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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