This is an analysis of the poem Sing -- Sing -- Music Was Given that begins with:

Sing -- sing -- Music was given
To brighten the gay, and kindle the loving; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBABcdcdABAB eXeXfgfgABAB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110110 01001110010 11110010 11001011110 1011001101 11001011001 11111001111 11101001111 11110110 01001110010 11110010 11001011110 1111010 11011110111 10101101010 111010100110 10010110001 11001011001 11001011001 1100111001 11110110 01001110010 11110010 11001011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 524
  • Average number of words per stanza: 91
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; she is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word moving at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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