Tune, Il Segreto Per Esser Felice by James Clerk Maxwell: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Tune, Il Segreto Per Esser Felice that begins with:

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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a aabccbddededeX X ffgaaghdbdidid X ggehhejdjdbbbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,14,1,14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 111111 111101 001011011 1011011 111011 11001101 1110010010 11101001 111011011111 11011111 111011110 11011111 1111110010 111010010 1 101001 101101 11001101 000111 111111 1101101 1110110010 01001011 1111111101001 101001001 011010010 11101101 1110010110 11111101 1 01011 101001 11011001 11011 101001 11111011 011111010 111111101 101011111011 111101111 1111011010 11111001 111110110 11001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 47
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; be, we, not are repeated.

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