This is an analysis of the poem Bkiv:Iii To The Muse that begins with:

Melpomene, Muse, one whom you
have looked on with favourable eyes at his birth...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbc bdXb cXce Xeff acbc cXdc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001111 11101001101 1010101 11010111010 01101010 001100100101 11001100 10001010111 01010001 101011010110 10110001 011010101 011110110 100101001101 010001010 10101011011 110111 010101011100 1111011 101101001010 10000101 111011010111 101000101 110101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; of, s, you, i are repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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