This is an analysis of the poem Air Of Diabelli's that begins with:

CALL it to mind, O my love.
Dear were your eyes as the day,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBbabacDaadcc eFaDaFbggbb HgigaHGIGh hXcggcX Xefjg ekf ke f cFhfllfj kckeme jmck FcDaBaHGIGjaacF lf f g XgXfge ggg gXgggXgggg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,11,10,7,5,3,2,1,8,6,4,15,2,1,1,6,3,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001111 1011101 1101101 1010110101 1011001 11111111111 1010101010 10101010 101011111 101010011 101001010 0010101010 10101010 101010101 10111010 10011101001 10101010 101011111 10111010 1010110101 101110101 10101010 101111101 1011101 10101010 101110101010 1010010 1111101010 110100110111 10101010 1010111010 10101010 1011101010 111011100 10101010 100110101 10101010 1001010111 1010010101 10101010 10101010 1001010101 110101 1001 1001001 1111011 11101111101 110101101 10101001 101011 10101 1101111 101001110 111011101 11111010 101110101 1101010110111010 1110 100010101 10101010 11101111111 1110101010 101000101 11101 101010101 1011111 11101010 11101 11111010 1110011101 10111010 1001110100110 10101010 101011111 1011101 1101110101 10101010 1010111010 10101010 1011101010 1011001 11111 111111 101110 111011101 10101110 111011111 1010101001 101010001 10111110 101011101 10101010 10101010 101010101 11111 0010 101010101 111011010 111010001 10101010 101010101 10101010 0010110 10101010 10100101 0110110 111010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 107
  • 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; all, and, of, in, hark, dream are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word see is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines love, river are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word round at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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