This is an analysis of the poem On Music that begins with:
When through life unblest we rove,
Losing all that made life dear, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefcgcg hihicjcj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1111011 1011111 1111101 01011111 1110101 10011111 1010101 01011111 1011101 10101010 0010101 1111010010 1010111 10101101 11100101 010010101 1011111 1010111 1110101 11110111 1010111 11101111 1110101 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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