This is an analysis of the poem On The Poetic Muse that begins with:
Far, far above this world I soar,
And almost nature lose, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc XdaX eeee fdfd ggggXebeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 111101 10010001 000101 110010101 010101 11110101 010111 110111010 110011 01011101 110110 10011101 111101 101100101 110001 10010101 101101 11011101 110101 110111001 110011 11010101 110101 01011111 010101 10000101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words such, and are repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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