This is an analysis of the poem Ode For The Keats Centenary that begins with:

The Muse is stern unto her favoured sons,
Giving to some the keys of all the joy...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcXdeefaaefe aXbdghbigaffifaijfklkm mmecdlknakomeoiegghXakak iaia ieie mfmf ofofaiaI agmalcoegafdffflfhaiaI aaaeahhaeaefgfbXmfn XlimeeXaefafeXel ijemcpcnnmfmiaXmffXqmqffomgmmppXkmgafXgli
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,22,24,4,4,4,8,22,19,16,41,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011001001 1001010101 00111101011 1011 100111 010101 110001 110101 01110 1101 1111 010101 1000010111110 1011 1101001 1001110100 10011110 0101010101 1011010100 1100001010 1101111111 011101 110010100 01000011 1101 0101001101 10110100 111100110 001101 110111 01011 1100101 0101100101 0101 111011 11 1011010 111010 10110101 1001001101 11000010101 01010100011 11010101 1101011101 10101 1001 1111110101 01011010001 1110011101 1101010001 01010001001 1001011111 110010011010 11110010100 010001001010 01011010000 11000101 010101 110011101 01001001 11010101 0111001 10111101 010101 11010101 0100101 11111101 010101 110010101 100111 10110101 110101 100111011 111101 10110101 001101 10010111 100111 11111101 100100 10010111 11011100 1001 10010010101 0100100010 10001110001 010000100101 110111 11010 1111 101101 101101 1101000101 10110 011111 100101010011 10010111 111110 1001011101 1001010111 11111101 100100 01011111010 010100101010 010101101010 0001110111 11110011110 11010101010 100010111010 1000111 10010101001 110100011 1011 100101011 100100100 10111011 001101 110110 10011 11101 10100101 0101000101 10011 1000110 010101 0110010001 100100010101 101100001000 1010001 01010011 0100101 01010 110110010 1101001 01010001000 0100010001 11000101 10011111 1011010101 10111 01010001001 11011010011 1111110 1001010101 100111 0101011011 1101010101 0111011101 1101010011 10110101 110101110 100100110 111101 101101010101 1001110011 11010101011 10110101 0011001101 1101010001 110100110 11010 1011010001 1011110101 11010 1000101 01000101 1001010101 11010001010 0101000111 0001010101 10101011111 110111110 1101110 0111011001 110111000 1101010 1011010101 11010
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 562
  • Average number of words per stanza: 100
  • Amount of lines: 178
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; in, of, beauty, to, with, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, beauty are repeated.

    The author used the same words where, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines joy is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word loneliness at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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