This is an analysis of the poem Musings On A Landscape Of Gaspar Poussin that begins with:
Poussin! most pleasantly thy pictur'd scenes
Beguile the lonely hour; I sit and gaze... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdbefcbXgdfeXhiXjdadkgiicccajllkcmfeneXfidcniiljaddkeddbXlhlimdbmXldla
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 73,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011001101 01010101111 0100111101 0101111011 0011010101 1101010111 00101100101 01110010001 0101001101 1101011101 101111100 01001010100 100110010001 1111001101 1111011101 1101100101 11010111001 100101001 1011010100 10110101101 0111110110 1001010101 0101110101 00101110101 01010101110 1001010011 01000110101 1001000101 1101001101 1011010001 1111110101 0101011101 111000110011 11100101001 1101010101 1110010101 1101110111 1000011111 0111111101 1101011111 1001011101 0111011101 0101010111 01110010101 1011000101 1111010101 11000100101 1101010101 1011110101 1101011101 11001010101 10110101010 1101010001 11000111101 1011100001 1111111101 1111111101 0101100101 0100110111 11010100110 01100010111 0001011111 1101111001 0111111100 0111010001 0101000111 1100110101 11010101011 11000100100 1011001101 0111001101 10110010111 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3129
- Average number of words per stanza: 555
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, his, would are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hill is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase stream connects the lines.
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