This is an analysis of the poem My Gentle Harp that begins with:
My gentle Harp, once more I waken
The sweetness of thy slumbering strain; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaabab XcXcdede fafaegeg XeXedbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111110 010011001 011111110 11011101 1101110110 111111001 0100111110 11010111 111111100 110011101 1101101010 01111101 110111110 0100110111 111101010 11011101 111111010 11010111 010111010 11110101 111111111 01111101 1100101111 110111011 110111111 11011111 110101110 11110110 1101011010 111111001 110101010 110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
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