This is an analysis of the poem Melodies To Sing that begins with:
Melodies to sing,
From past seasons to remember......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abcddc eXXfXddd AGCDH AcdcfX aegX XXicai XX bffd gfXXAGCDH
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,5,6,4,6,2,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10001 01100010 1110001 101 1111011 1101001 00111110 11000010101 10101101 0010101000100 001010110111 0111101001 10110100001 11110101001 10001 00100110 1110010101 00101011 0110011101 10001 01011101 0101001 0100100111 110101101 101000010 10101011110 110100 101 11110 11 110101111 11110100101 01011 110101100100 01001000100010 1 11010111010100 110 10101100 110101 01010101001 101 1111 01111 10001 00100110 1110010101 00101011 0110011101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word as is repeated.
The author used the same word melodies at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Melodies To Sing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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