This is an analysis of the poem Music For The Dying that begins with:
Ye who will help me in my dying pain,
Speak not a word: let all your voices cease.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXcd Xede fgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101101101 1101111101 11111101001 111111 1010011101 0101111110 1111111011 110001 101101111001 1111100101 01001011111 111101 0100010101 0111110101 0101000101 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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