This is an analysis of the poem Musa that begins with:
O MY lost beauty!--hast thou folded quite
Thy wings of morning light... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbcc ddeeeff ffccXcc ccaaagg ffcXccc cccXchh eedddXc iicccdd ffaaafX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011101 110101 011101 11110000101 1101010101 0111001 100101100101 1111001101 11011001 111111 1111110111 11110110101 111101 101111111101 1011011101 011101 111101 1011111101 01010101000 1101011 1111001111001 10111111001 101101 110101 11010001001 11001110101 1100111 011101011101 1101010101 1011001 110101 10110100010 1101010111 110101 110101010101 1111010101 111111 111101 1011111110 11010100101 1100111 101101010101 11011110101 111111 101101 11010011111 01010010101 1100100 10001011101001 1111010101 110101 111101 1011011101 11011101001 110101 010111110101 11110101011 010111 110101 110011101011 1101111001 011111 1111011110010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; of, while are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, and, come are repeated.
The author used the same word come at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Musa;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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