This is an analysis of the poem Inscriptions : Iv. that begins with:
My poet yearns and shudders with desire
To bring to speech your music's intense thought:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011100010 0101110011 001011101110 1000100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 4
- 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; to is repeated.
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