This is an analysis of the poem Astronomy that begins with:
Lucinda! Lucinda! why all this abstraction?
May astronomy hold no communion with mirth?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcdceaea cfcfdaXaagageh ehifif
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,14,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010110010 101001101001 110010111010 0110111001 11101100011111 11011111001 1111010110110 111101001101 110110111010 110111100101 1011011010010 101001011001 111001110110 01111001001 10110100100110 111111001001 101010010010 11011101101 110011010100 111001011001 111010011110 011001011011 11111110010 11011011101 1110011110110 1011001011101 110010101110 11011011001 1110111100110 1101111001 1110011111100 111111001111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 532
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, of, and, from are repeated.
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