This is an analysis of the poem Refrain that begins with:
Of all the songs which poets sing
The ones which are most sweet ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXDeDffeFGgabcb fbBBDcDffcfGGfbBB bbXXdcdffcFGGcbXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,17,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 011111 11111100 010101 11011100 1011010110 1011 10010 10011001 1011101 0101 01110101 10111 00101 101011 11111 101001 101101 01011 11011 101111 001101 1011010110 1011 10010 11011011 100110101 10101 01100101 10111 00101 101011 101111 101111 001101 1011101 01111 01011 0010100 1100111010 11001 11010 0100110111 10100110101 10101 01110101 10111 00101 10111 11111 001111 001101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 474
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 52
- 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; which, to are repeated.
The author used the same word of at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word repeat at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Refrain;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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