This is an analysis of the poem My Memory's Care that begins with:
Sing not to me a song of beauty bright,
Nor festive scenes of dazzling light; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXBB ccbbBB ddXXBB eebXBB ffggBB eehhbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010101 110101001 1010100101 1000100100 110111001 001101111 110100101 110110101 101011101 101011101 110111001 001101111 110100111 110111101 11100100101 01011100 110111001 001101111 1101011001 111101111 110101011 11010101011 110111001 001101111 11011100 1010110101 110101010 1010111010 110111001 001101111 110100101 0010110101 110110101 1010100101 11111001 110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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, sing are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, not, sing are repeated.
The author used the same word sing at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word where at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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