This is an analysis of the poem The Teares Of The Muses that begins with:

Rehearse to me ye sacred Sisters nine:
The golden brood of great Apolloes wit,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXaacXcdX eXefgg XdXdee XbhbXX XbeXbb bibiXX ebeXgg XfXfjX X XgXgbbkbkbXX bXXXgX ibiXee gXgXfX XgXgdd eXeXXX XdXdee bkbkXl XmXmJX X eXXdhhXXXXaa fXfhee ggXgXX bfbfXX XeeXXX iXiaXX nXfXXh XXXfaa leleJX X oXoXXXfgfgXX XbXbXX XXbXbb pbpbkk dbdbXX XbXbq
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,1,12,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,1,12,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,1,12,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,1,12,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,1,12,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,1,12,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,1,12,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,1,12,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,1,12,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
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100 110101001 1101010101 1111001001 011010101 111010010 100011010 11010011010 01111101 110111101 10100011 1111000101 1100100100 1111101101 0101111001 1111001001 0101011100 011101111 1101110101 1111010100 01001110 1101010101 01101010 110100111 1011110101 1100110011 10110010011 11101011 1111011111 1010010111 010100101 1110011010 0111010101 1111110101 11110100 1111011101 1101111001 110010001 110111111 111100011 1101110101 111111101 1111011101 1111011101 0101000101 011110101 111101010 11010100101 1101001101 110111111 1101010111 1111010101 0101011001 1101110110 1111111101 0111010101 01010110101 1101010011 0101010111 1101110101 010111110 0101 011111110 1101001101 110101011 110010011 11010110001 0100111100 11011101 010100111 0101010110 1101010101 11100101 0011100010 1101010101 1111011101 11111101 1101000101 1101001110 110101011 1111101010 0111010001 1111111100 1111111101 1101011111 1110010111 11001010100 1101010101 11011011100 1111110111 010101011 1101110001 111110111 110110010 0111101001 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  • Amount of stanzas: 99
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 619
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ye, of, her, and, their, to, in, i, with, his, by, our, your, for, peereles, po, all are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, was, and, a, the, or, for, it, but are repeated.

    The author used the same words the, but, so, all 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 tresse is repeated).

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