This is an analysis of the poem Sir Henry Irving that begins with:
No more for thee the music and the lights,
Thy magic may no more win smile nor frown;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaBA abcb bdcd Xcbc eXad efgfXgaBA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010101 1101111111 1111010001 010111 1101010101 1101011101 1101001111 010001 11110100101 0101010101 1101010111 010111 1101010111 0100110011 1101001101 010111 1101110001 0111010101 11001010101 010101 1111010001 1101110011 01111001010 010111 1111011111 1101001101 1111010001 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; no, of, more, and are repeated.
The author used the same word no at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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