This is an analysis of the poem To A Town Poet that begins with:

Snatch the departing mood;
Make yours its emptying reed, and pipe us still... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaab cdccd efeef gdggd fhffh hfhhf gabba fiffi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 100101 11010011111 1001101101 100100 1101010101 1011000 0101010101 1011010111 010111 1001010101 110111 1101110101 011100100111 110111 1101010111 110111 1100010101 01011111101 111101 1101000101 011111 1111110101 100101101001 1101001 110111100001 100101 1110011101 1111001111 100101 1111011101 010011 111111011 1111011111 110101 1110010011 110101 1001100001 1111011101 011101 0101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; in, faith, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words faith, the are repeated.

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  • summary of To A Town Poet;
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  • history of its creation;
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