Poem Analysis of To The Spirit Of Music by Henry Kendall for close reading

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Rhyme scheme: abbbbcbcbbdbdbebe fefe gfgf ebeb hhhh aeae X XeXeececibib jbjXieke hhhhbbbb X iXijbibkgdgd gXbXXeXeeheh ebebebebffff acac bkbkebeblmlm iaiaebebhahX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,4,4,4,4,4,1,12,8,8,1,12,12,12,4,12,12,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: ballad stanza
Metre: 1 01110001 01010111 11110101 111101001 11111001 01110101 11000101 11010101 11011111 11111101 11010101 110100111 1110111 11000101 11010101 111101 110100101 01011101 10010101 011100101 11110101 11111101 11011101 110011001 11110111 01010101 11010101 11010101 11111111 11011101 01010001 11110101 11011111 01010111 111100101 11011101 1 011011000 11001101 0100010100 01001011 1010010010 11001001 010010010 11001001 110010010 0100101 110010110 01001101 11001011 01101001 11011001 11101001 110010110 11001001 11001001 11001001 001001001 01011011 01001011 01001011 11011101 0010010010 1001011 110111010 1 10001010 10001100 10111010 10111010 10101010 10111010 10111110 1010101 11101010 10111110 10101010 100100010 10111011 10101010 100111010 10001100 11110010 100101110 10101010 00101010 11101110 10101011 10111010 10111111 1001001011 1011001011 1001001101 1010001101 1001001001 0100111001 11001001001 0101011011 1000101101 1001001001 1011011001 1001001001 1000101001 1001101101 10010001001 1001001001 1100100 0010111 1001100 1010101 1110101 1010101 1010111 1111101 1011111 1011111 1000101 1001101 11011010 1110101 10101110 1001001 1010101 1010111 1010001 1011101 1110101 1011101 1010101 1011100
Amount of stanzas: 17
Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
Average number of words per stanza: 47
Amount of lines: 131
Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, her, in, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, she, the, float are repeated.
The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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To The Spirit Of Music by Henry Kendall: poem analysis

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