This is an analysis of the poem A Study In Feeling that begins with:
To be a great musician you must be a man of moods,
You have to be, to understand sonatas and etudes.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXcX ddeeaa Xcaaff ddddgg ddbbeeXffeegg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 00010101100101 11000101110111 01010101010001 01001101110100 01101010100111 11010010110010 01101100010101 10010101111111 11101010110101 1111101001100001 01110101110101 11011100110001 11011010110010 101000100000101 01010101110101 001010101011001 11011101011101 11011100010101 11110101111111 11110101011101 11010100110111 01010100010101 01010101010101 11010100110001 11011101110101 11011101010101 11001111010111 1110111010101 11010100110101 1101010111001 11011101110101 11000110110001 10001100110101 11011101010111 11110111111110 111010101000001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 329
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, you, be, and, so, or, he, very, i, his, in, it, never are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase he connects the lines.
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