This is an analysis of the poem Songs Without Sense: [for The Parlor And Piano] that begins with:
I. THE PERSONIFIED SENTIMENTAL
AFFECTION’S charm no longer gilds... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a Xbabcded cbdbbeee f ddgdhaia acjcfccc ahihacgc i kkgggXkjkg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,1,8,8,8,1,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001011010 01011101 010001 110100101 010101 110100101 110101 01110101 0100001 11110101 010101 01010111 110101 01111101 010001 11010101 011101 1010010 01110111 111111 11011101 011111 11111101 111101 11111101 010111 01110111 111101 01011101 011101 11010101 011101 11011100 111111 11110101 110101 11010101 110111 11011101 111101 01011111 010111 111 101111 011111 111 111 11001 11111111 11111 11111 11001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; s, rail, fence, old, la, ha are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word the 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 rail, la are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word repeat at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase la connects the lines.
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