This is an analysis of the poem Voices that begins with:
OH ! sometimes when the solemn organ rolls
Its stream of sound down gray historic aisles ;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccdaefccgd hfaacXiXffajkacklfmajdkfcadanlccoheaa mmbgfmmaggpdfcokmXgagpmqlqocnkrafmgajmmhradancaplcaccfggroorglfmXmamkaamkgafimbaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,37,81,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011010101 01011101010 10111100100 0101010001 101110011100 1101110101 01111100101 1101010101 1101111101 1011101110 1101010001 1111110101 10010101110 1011011111 10101100101 1101110101 1101111111 01010111011 0101010100 11110101 10 0111010111 100011100101 10010100101 0101011110 1001000101 01011101101 1101010101 0111010101 1101010111 0111001 1101 1101011111 11010101010 1010111100101 1111011011 10110010101 1001110101 00111110101 01111101010 10111100101 1101010111 11010101001 010101 1101 1010010101 0101010111 1101011101 1101011111 11111100101 1001110101 01001000111 101100100100 110101001001 1111011111 0101111001 010011101001 11100100100 010100101101 0111111111 0101010111 1101011101 11001011101 11110100101 01010100101 00010101011 01010100111 0100010111 10010011111 0111011101 1110110101 00101110111 1100010110 1001011001 1111011001 11010000101 11011010101 1111010111 1111010111 10010101001 1111110110 1001010001 1101010111 0101010100 1101010001 010101 11110 0100110100 11111110 11 1100110101 1101010101 11011101001 0101011100 1101111111 11111101101 1011011111 11110100101 11010100111 01011101001 1111010101 11110011101 1100010101 0101110101 0110111101 1111011101 1111101111 110100100111 1101011001 0011011011 1111011101 1101111101 010010100101 0100010001 0100010101 1000010111 1111011 111 11001010001 11010111001 01010101010 1111010001 1101011001 0001011101 10010010111 1011110101 1111100111 0101010111 10010100100 11011110101 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1849
- Average number of words per stanza: 328
- Amount of lines: 131
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; or, and, of, higher, this, mirth, but, which, for, that, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, i, but, for, the, oh, which are repeated.
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- summary of Voices;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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