This is an analysis of the poem New Year's Chimes that begins with:
What is the song the stars sing?
(And a million songs are as song of one)... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXAX aXaab cXccb dXdb bXbbb eXeb fXffb gXggb dXdfb hXhXb cXccb iXiib AiaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,4,5,4,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001011 110101111010 0001011 110110 10111001 110101111010 10111001 01011011 0111101011 0101100101 110101111010 10100101 010110101 11100101 0111001101 110101111010 10011101 1010110111 10110111 11010111110 100110101 11011101 1010001001 11000101 110101011110 110010011 1010011101 10110111 110101011110 101010001 10100101 011101101 010100101 1010111110 1010110111 10111011 0011111101 10011101 10101111010 11011101 01110101 10110101 110100010 10101111010 0101010101010 10111001100 111100101 10110001 10010111010 010100101 010100101 10100101 10101101 10101111010 1010010101 101001111 1011100110 0001011 1101 10000101 010000101 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; i, song, one, and, to, many, in, all, of, dream are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, a are repeated.
The author used the same words the, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of New Year's Chimes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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