This is an analysis of the poem For Music that begins with:
ALONG the shore, along the shore
I see the wavelets meeting: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccbadaD ababeebadaD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 11010010 11111101 1111110 010100111 01011011 0101010 10010111 0101010 11111101 0101010 01010101 1101010 11110101 1111110 01110101 11010101 0111010 11010101 1101010 11111101 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 352
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.
The author used the same word along at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word forever at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of For Music;
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- idea of the verse;
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