This is an analysis of the poem The Muses' Son that begins with:
THROUGH field and wood to stray,
And pipe my tuneful lay,--...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa baX b cc dee d ff baa b aa eXX e gg hbXbh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 111101 111111 111101 110100 111001 0111110 01010010 0111001 111101 110101 011111 111111 1010101 110101 110101 1100111 0101101 110101 111101 110101 010111 010101 0100011 100111 1011111 010101 111111 110101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 54
- Average number of words per stanza: 10
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
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