This is an analysis of the poem The Songstress that begins with:
BACK flies my soul to other years,
When thou that charming lay repeatest,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXab cbcb X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110100 111101100 11010111 110111010 11011111 1101110010 11011111 111110110 1
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Songstress;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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