This is an analysis of the poem Songs That Are Not Sung that begins with:
DO not praise: a smile is payment more than meet for what is done;
Who shall paint the mote's glad raiment floating in the molten sun? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccddeeeeeeffgghhXX ii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,18,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111010101111101 1110101101000101 111110111111111 001000111010111 101010101110101 101010100110001 101010101111101 1010010101011101 111010101010101 111010101010101 101000101010111 111100101110111 111010101010101 101011101110001 101010101010101 111111101110001 101111101011101 101011101011001 011011101011111 1110100101010001 1110101010101100 101011001010101 111011111011101 001010111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 532
- Average number of words per stanza: 97
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 66 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, his, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word once is repeated.
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