This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of Ninian Melville that begins with:
Sing the song of noisy Ninny - hang the Muses - spit it out!
(Tuneful Nine ye needn't help me - poet knows his way about!)... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbXcX aaXXddXX eeffaaaX gghhiXgg aajjjjbX cciiXfaa kkiXllii mmnnaacX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101010101010101 101110111010101 111010101011111 001010101000101 101010100010101 10101110101101 101110101011101 101010101110101 101010111010101 101110101010101 1010111010101010 101010101110001 111011111011101 101010101000101 1110010101010101 1010101010101010 0011101010100101 101010101010101 101010101010001 101111101010101 10001110100010101 101000101000101 101010101010101 1001101101010110 101010101011101 111110101010101 1010101001010101 101110101010101 101010111110001 101010101010101 101110101010101 10110101010111 111001101110101 101010100010101 101110100010111 11101101000101001 001110111010101 101010111011101 101011101010101 101011101110111 101011101010111 101010001010101 1011101010101001 101010100010001 101010101010101 001110101110111 101010101111111 111000101000100 101000101010001 101010101010101 101010101111101 101011001110101 101110101010111 100101010010001 110010101111111 111110101010101 101100101010101 101010111010001 101001101010101 101010101010111 101010111010011 101010101001001 101110101001001 10100010001001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 503
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, ninny, he, of, at, to are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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