This is an analysis of the poem The Pleasures Of Melancholy that begins with:
Mother of musings, Contemplation sage,
Whose grotto stands upon the topmost rock ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefegccgcghXfXffffeijkfhflecdjmfedddnidokgbmdiendepmcdmfepcXfdhdXdfqXXikcrcagidlbfpbgecsdpdXdlkdfffqfigopjedtqXeqefidfmddciqdidnpcfnfsqkffpqifddkhiXfXahdtdXgfdeiiqldfcddehfcdgfpfskfkdktXbjececgipkXckfigcbbpd dfiqflkicbXafhf cXdfgkfghffbirddef dcchffdff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 210,15,18,35,21,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001010101 1111010101 01001011001 1101010101 1101010101 1101011001 1001110101 11001010101 1101110101 10011110001 0101011101 0111010111 1111000111 0110010101 0101010111 0101010001 1111010101 0100110101 0110111110 1101010101 01001110101 01001110101 0111010101 01011011110 01011101101 1011111101 0111110101 0111010111 11111111001 1111010011 1011010101 1101010101 10111111010 0101010111 1011110001 0101010101 01110101111 0101011101 0101010101 1101011101 1111010101 1101011101 0101010101 1101011101 0101100101 10011110101 0101011101 1101010101 1101101101 1100000101 01110100011 1111010001 1101010101 110010101001 1101010101 1111000001 1101110101 1101111101 11010101001 1111010101 1101110101 1101010001 1101011101 1110010101 0011010011 10101001101 1011011101 1101010100 1101010011 1101110101 11000010101 1101000101 1101010101 1101010101 11010101001 1101010101 01111110101 1101010111 1001010101 1111010001 0101010101 0101111101 1101000111 01010010001 11011101001 01010111001 0101010101 111110101 1011010101 1011100101 01010011101 1111000101 1101010101 0100011011 0101011000 11001110011 1100010101 11000111111 0111010001 11010100111 01001110101 10110011001 1101000101 10010011101 1101010101 11010010101 1101010101 1011000101 100001010010 1111010101 1101010101 1101111111 1001010101 1001010111 11010010101 1101100101 11011101001 100110111 0111010101 1101011101 10011100001 0101011111 0100100101001 11111111001 1111010101 11010001001 1101000111 0101011011 0101010101 1101001101 0101110101 101010101001 1001000101 1111010101 1101000101 1101111101 11011101001 100010011111 0101010101 101000101 1101010101 1111110101 0101011101 1111000101 0101011101 1001010101 0101010101 11001011101 100101010101 1101100101 0101010101 1101010101 1111110101 11001010101 1111010011 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 11010001101 1001110101 0101010101 1001010001 0101000101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1111010101 0101010101 1101011101 1111000101 0100100101 10101010111 11110001001 11001100101 11010010001 1101011101 01010001001 1101010101 11111110101 01010011011 10110110101 0111110001 01011101001 1101010101 11001110101 1101110111 01001110101 01100101001 100100101100 1101010101 10111100010 10010101001 0101111101 1101010101 1101010111 010101011001 11111010101 0101010111 0111011101 1111010100 1101011111 10010100011 1101000101 1111010101 01010111001 1101010101 1101011101 0101010101 0111010101 10011010101 1111010111 0011000101 011001101 1001011101 111001101 0101010101 11110100101 1011101101 0111000101 1101110101 1101011100 1001010101 1101010101 01101110101 1111010101 1101000101 0101010101 01110010101 0110010001 1111000101 0111011101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010001 0101001101 1101010101 1001010011 11011001001 01010110011 11110011001 0101011101 1111010001 01110001010 01001010101 0101110101 11001110101 1111001001 1101111101 0101010101 0111010101 11001011111 1111011101 0101110101 011101001010 1101011001 01010011101 01110111001 11010111001 1101010101 10011100101 11010100100 0101010101 01010100100 1101010101 1101110101 10011111001 1101110111 1011010101 0101010011 1101011101 1011110101 110100100101 1101110101 01110101001 1101110101 0110000101 01101011100 1001010101 1111010101 1101011111 011110000101 1100010101 10011101101 11001111111 110110001 010101111 1011011101 110101011 010100110001 1101000111 11010101010 0011010101 11100101001 11010110101 010111001010 1110011001 1111110101 11010101001 1111110101 1101010101 0101010111 0111111101 1101010101 01001011101 11010101010 1101110101 1001010101 1001010101 1101011001 00110001010 1101010101 0101001101 1101011101 11010000101 0111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2301
- Average number of words per stanza: 389
- Amount of lines: 315
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; to, in, of, her, with, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, thy, the, here, o are repeated.
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- summary of The Pleasures Of Melancholy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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