This is an analysis of the poem Written For A Musician that begins with:

Hungry for music with a desperate hunger
I prowled abroad, I threaded through the town; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101100010010 11001110101 01011100110 1011001111 110101010110 1101011001 11111101111 0100110101 01001110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 402
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.

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