This is an analysis of the poem Today We Make The Poet's Words Our Own that begins with:

To-day we make the poet's words our own,
And utter them in plaintive undertone; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbXeeffXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0111010111 1100010101 1001010011 1001010101 1101010001 1101110111 1101011011 0111001101 1110111001 10011000101 1100111111 0001110111 1000010111 1010000101 1101010011 10110111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 696
  • Average number of words per stanza: 126
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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