This is an analysis of the poem The Song that begins with:
MY soul, lost in the music's mist,
Roamed, rapt, 'neath skies of amethyst,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddccbbbbaaaaeeddaabbffggcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101 11110100 01011101 0101101 11010101 01010101 10010111 01000111 01000101 01111101 11010101 11110100 01110011 11110101 11010101 01010101 01011101 11011110 01110101 01011111 11010101 11110111 11010100 01110101 11111111 01010001 110111011 01111101 11011101 11011111 11111101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1135
- Average number of words per stanza: 216
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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