This is an analysis of the poem Farewell To The Muse that begins with:
Thou Power! who hast ruled me through Infancy's days,
Young offspring of Fancy, 'tis time we should part;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cece fdfd gggg hghg gaga bXbc bXbb bibi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110111111001 11101011111 11101001011 010100101011 01001001011 11111101101 01001111101 11011011001 11001011101 110111010110 11101111101 110110010110 11001011001 11001001001 11001011011 11001011011 101101001001 01011111101 110011010111 111110111001 111001111101 11001001001 11111001001 111011001001 111001111011 11111001011 11011111011 110111010110 01111101001 111110010110 11111001001 111101011011 11101101001 110010110100 11111011011 101101001001 11111111111 011101011011 111100111001 00111101001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, my, can, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
The author used the same word can at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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