This is an analysis of the poem The Musagetes that begins with:

IN the deepest nights of Winter
To the Muses kind oft cried I:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccdaXXXccd ebbfaXXXfdgebcb aXXabhigghbgebiagdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,15,19,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00101010 00101111 100101010 10101110 11101010 10111010 10101010 001011100 11110110 11100010 101110010 10101010 111010011 001000111 1001000111 10101110 11001010 111011100 101100010 11100010 10101110 10111010 10111010 011010010 101110101 10101110 10111011 11101010 10101110 11011010 10111010 10001011 10101110 10010010 11101010 11011011 10111010 011110011 11101010 00101110 10100011 10011011 111001010 10101010 10101010 10111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 509
  • Average number of words per stanza: 89
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; of, my, me, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, bring, and are repeated.

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  • summary of The Musagetes;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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