This is an analysis of the poem Commission that begins with:
Go, my songs, to the lonely and the unsatisfied,
Go also to the nerve-racked, go to the enslaved-by-convention,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdc bXcXcaaaXa eaafcXdXabXe XcdfX baX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,10,12,5,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010100101 1100011100011010 10010111010 110110110 11010010 101110010 101010000001100 1011 1001010100010 10010010 100100010 100110001 100100010 10011 1001001 101111001 1011100010110 110101010001 1011010 100101 11000101010100001 1001010 101101 01001110110 001110010 10111100101 011111100 100101011100100 1110000 011101001110010 00111101 1011010110 11101010 101010010001 00111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; go, to, against, speak, who are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words go, speak, be are repeated.
The author used the same word go at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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