This is an analysis of the poem On A Symphony Of Beethoven that begins with:

Terrible music, whose strange utterance
Seemed like the spell of some dread conscious trance;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffggcchhXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1001011100 1101011101 10010010001 01001001111 10010110100 1101010100 1011010101 01010010111 10001001111 10010011001 01001100101 1100110101 0101010001 1011001101 1101010101 01011101001 1001100101 01000010111 1011010100 0111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 858
  • Average number of words per stanza: 138
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; of is repeated.

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