This is an analysis of the poem Merlin I that begins with:
Thy trivial harp will never please
Or fill my craving ear;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcacaddefafacgdgdeaeahh cdiicjjkaaea aaeeXdXccd dggdldlbee haambbmXccddakkaaall
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,12,10,10,20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010101 111101 01111101 101001 11010001 11000101 110111 001001 0101 11011011 1010101 111101 1010101 1000101 10010001 1011101 1000101 11011001 1000111 0010101 0010101 0010100 0010101 0010001 0010001 11010101 1001 10010001 11101010 001010110 11011111 1111 101 10100101 000101 11010001 110101 1011001 1010001 1011101 1110101 1011100 1110111 110101 10101100 1101 1111 1110101 1100001 111101 10101 01010101 01010000 110101 110101 1010101 1010101 1100101 111101 010101 10101 100101 1100101 0010111 01010001011101 1010101 110111001 11000101 1001101 111010 1010101 10110011 0101000100 101101 111001 11010101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 376
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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, with, in, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, great, and are repeated.
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- summary of Merlin I;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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