This is an analysis of the poem Bki:Xxxii To The Lyre that begins with:
I’m called on. O Lyre, if I’ve ever played
idle things with you in the shade, that will live,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XbXc XXbc XaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101101 10101001101 10111111001 10100 1011110010 01100111011 1101101101 101001 11001010110 11001011010 11100100011 11011 11000101010 10101000010 11101101101 01111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; that, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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