This is an analysis of the poem Voluntaries that begins with:
I.
Low and mournful be the strain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a babacdcdebfb gghihieieiefefbjbjfafX X dkdkbbiicbcbiddifbfblflf X dededadabdbdebeb X cXXfeegefdkfkfffXd didifbfbmdmgdcece a dkdkdfafanfnXXndf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,22,1,24,1,16,1,18,17,1,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1110001 1010101 1010011 1000101 1110001 1010101 1010101 0010101 10101001 10100101 1010111 1011111 1011101 11110101 1111011 01011101 10101001 01010101 10010111 0110001 01010101 110101 1100101 1110111 1011101 111101 1100101 110101 11010101 1110101 1001111 1111111 10111101 1110101 1 101101 11000101 01111001 110111001 1000101 11110111 01100101 01010101 1110101 1010101 1010101 0011001 1000101 1111001 110010101 01000101 1110101 1010101 1010011 11010101 010100101 01110001 11010111 11011101 1 0110111 1010101 1110101 01010101 11011101 011111 11111101 110111 11010101 110100 11010101 010111 11001011 110101 11010111 010111 1 11101001 110110 10010100 010111 110011101 110101 1011101 010101 11010001 110101 111101 11010101 1010111 101001001 10100101 1010101 00111100 101100101 1010101 1001111 01010101 10101011010101 11110101 1110111 1110101 1010111 01010101 1011101 10010101 11010111 0100101 10111101 1011111 10010101 0100101 1 1010101 0010111 11011101 1000101 1010101 1010101 11001 1110101 0111111 11111101 01011101 11011111 01110110 101110101 11010101 1010111 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 340
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 131
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, what, by, to, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word so is repeated.
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- summary of Voluntaries;
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