This is an analysis of the poem This Instrument (In An Orchestrated Life) that begins with:
This instrument,
I've been blessed with a given......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCCD aBeeXd FGEg ABCCD hedXh ABCCD ACFGEeiAaiAa AC aaiAddc JKAXJeJeJKA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,4,5,5,5,12,2,7,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100 1010010 111101010 110 0101001101 01100 1010010 001 101 01010101 11011100101 1110101 10111 010010 0101 0100 1010010 111101010 110 0101001101 1110101 0111010 11110101 11101011 11110110 0100 1010010 111101010 110 0101001101 0101000100 1110110 1110101 10111 010010 00101 0 0100 11010010100 0 0100 10100010100 0101000100 1110110 110100 1010110100 10 0100 1101001 101 110 111011 0110101 01100 111011 0110000101 111011 01100001 111011 0110101 01100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
The author used the same words this, my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words better, instrument at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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