This is an analysis of the poem Music that begins with:
My friend went to the piano; spun the stool
A little higher; left his pipe to cool; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcbddeeffddbbgghhddcciicc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11100010101 0101010101 1101110001 11010 10011 0101011111 10011001001 1011001101 1101010001 10010100111 1001010101 1111110111 10001010011 0101010111 1011011101 1001010101 0101010011 01011111010 01011101010 01110111001 10110101001 1101010101 0011010101 1011010011 0111111101 11111101101101 101001111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1247
- Average number of words per stanza: 215
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Music;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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