This is an analysis of the poem The Muse Who Came To Stay that begins with:

You are the first muse who came to stay.
The others began & ended with a wish,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbX cdXc Xedc dcbXe cffbbc abXXXd cXaXcdcabc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,5,6,6,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111101 0100110001 1011010110 01010100101011 101110010101 1101001011 10111111 1111111100101 1110101011 101010011 101110101 101110001 1010100101001 101000111110 100010110 100110 110111 11100101010 1101011110 1101001011 010111001 01110111 1001010101 11010101 1010010 101101011 1011001010 1110010010 100110101 1111100101 10110101 111101101 110011100101 001001111100 0011101111 00101010111 0111011011 01110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; or, your, by, we, to, i, if are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, we, the, if are repeated.

    The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Muse Who Came To Stay;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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