While History's Muse by Thomas Moore: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem While History's Muse that begins with:

While History's Muse the memorial was keeping
Of all that the dark hand of Destiny weaves, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdccd aeXefdffX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100100100110 01101101001 010010010110 10101011001 11101001111 11011001011 111001 001001 1100011001001 1010110110010 010010101111 111111010100 11001011011 101011111111 11101111011 111001 001101 10110100100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 414
  • Average number of words per stanza: 74
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; of is repeated.

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

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