This is an analysis of the poem The Master Singer that begins with:

A LAUGHTER in the diamond air, a music in the trembling grass;
And one by one the words of light as joydrops through my being pass: ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeeeffgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01000101010001001 1111010111011101 1101100101011001 1101110101010001 11010010101011101 1101010011011101 01001011110110101 1101010001011111 1110010101010111 0101010111010101 0101010111010101 10001000111001111 11010101100111010 011111010111010010 1001011111011101 100100101010100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1113
  • Average number of words per stanza: 204
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 69 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 13
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, , i, and, of are repeated.

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