This is an analysis of the poem The Aeolian Harp that begins with:
_At The Surf Inn_
List the harp in window wailing... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcXc ddee XXXfaXX eagXhdhdffii iXccffeedd bjbjXXXX kgkg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,7,12,10,8,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011 10101010 1110101 10101010 1010101 1010101 110100001 111011 010101001 1110110 0101001010 110110100 11011101 100111110 0111110 1 100101 1101010 100011001 1010010 1000101 0100001 1110111 010101 1010101 1010111 01000101 1010101 0110101 11101100 1010111 1001101 0110111 01010101 1010111 1110101 11000111 1010101 00101010 11111010 10111010 10100010 10010101 1101010 1001100 1000010 1010101 10111010 10101001 11111110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; drifted, o are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
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- summary of The Aeolian Harp;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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