This is an analysis of the poem To Music that begins with:

Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps:
silence of paintings. You language where all language...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXa XXaaXbXbccad Xd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,12,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101001101 100101101110 111 1010010100101 10111101010 0100010010011 11010111 1101010101 11001110011 10010 101011011 1110110101010 1001 1 10 1101000 01011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, you are repeated.

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  • summary of To Music;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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