This is an analysis of the poem February that begins with:
Begin, my muse, the imitative lay,
Aonian doxies sound the thrumming string; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efef cgcg hihi bebe hehe ajaj Xckc dhdh eXec blbl ieie akak jbjb lclc dldl kekeXkaka
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111010101 101010101 0111000101 1111111101 0001000101 0101110101 1101010101 1100110101 1011010101 10110101001 1101011101 1011010001 1101010101 0101110101 0101000101 1101000101 1101110101 0101000101 1101010101 0101010101 110010100101 1001000101 11010000101 11010101001 1101000101 0101011001 1100010001 0101110101 1101011101 0101110101 1101000101 1011110111 1101010100 1000010001 1100010101 0101110001 1101011111 0101010001 1101010001 0111010001 1101010101 11110010101000 1101010101 0101010101 1111010101 1101000101 1101010111 0101010111 0111000101 1101010101 1101010101 01001000101 1101011101 1101010101 1101010101 1011111101 1101010101 0101010101 0101010101 1101011001 1101110101 111010101 1011010001 1111010101 1101010101 10101010101 1101111101 1101010101 01001010011 1001010101 1101010101 0101000101 1101010101 11001010101 1111010101 0111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; his, of, and, now, o, what, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words now, o, what are repeated.
The author used the same words now, ye at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of February;
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