This is an analysis of the poem To The Muse that begins with:
Resign the rhapsody, the dream,
To men of larger reach;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded fgfgXdada
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010001 010101 01010011 010001 11010101 110101 11011101 111101 11001101 111101 11001101 111101 11110111 010001 110011001 011101 11011011 110111 11011101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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; of, and, leave are repeated.
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- summary of To The Muse;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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