This is an analysis of the poem Ode To Psyche that begins with:
O Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers, wrung
By sweet enforcement and remembrance dear,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdXdeXfX eXghhiijhjh bXbcfdfDkakA dbdieddefDkakA fefedldlggfmfmkfkf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,11,12,14,18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011100101 1101010101 1101110101 1000111101 1011011011 011000101 1100010100 1101010001 111101111 0101010101 0111010111 010110 1111010101 110111010 1111010101 110111101 1111111101 10100111010 11011100010 1101101001 01111 1111110101 0101 11011100101 01100101010 101101001001 11010011001 1011110111 1101010 11010010101 0101110 1111111011 0111010 1111110011 0111010 1101111011 1111010101 1100010101 10010101010 1100111101 0101001101 10001010100 11111111010 11101101101 0101110 1111111011 0101010 1111110011 0111010 1100111101 0110010011 111110101 0101110001 1101111101 101110111 1111011111 011110101 1001001100 0101010011 00101000101 0111110101 010100101011 11010010101 1110111101 1100111 01110100111 010110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 606
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, no, thy, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words their, nor, with are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word dreaming at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Ode To Psyche;
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