This is an analysis of the poem A Song Of Joys that begins with:

O to make the most jubilant song!
Full of music-full of manhood, womanhood, infancy!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abc caa add efeg chcfX cij cklm lck lnc cfo lb ljjj kommjgXl kglpqpp gcqcjkc fjnk afcfqrbfspc cckcta nogp liga mcbikgl lhb lcppcnkcgacdaplfndknpld ino k mpjup cfkoa bcdXtnhccpgg cXctgci jfj gcad njl tpkfu uagcca dkkaipkgoni emcaip ugcnncXu llkc nngrgn snf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,4,5,3,4,3,3,3,2,4,8,7,7,4,11,6,4,4,7,3,23,3,1,5,5,12,7,3,4,3,5,6,11,6,8,4,6,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101011001 10101011101100 101001010111 11010010011010110010 11010011001 1101111001001 10101100010001110 00101010110101 1011001111 10101101001010 010101010101100 101010 01010011110010 101010101111 01110001001011 10001 010010011111110 100 10100110001 010010010010101 10010111 10101 110011101 1111110111 01001101010 1010011010100000100 010101001010010 010 1010111010100110010 101000101010100101 1001 10101 010010001010100 100101 10001101010 010101100010111100 10110011111 0101111 0100101111100111 1101010101111 1010111101110101 001010011111 01011101011011110 01010001001101110 11011111110111 001111010110101 1111001111110100 11 010111110111110111 10111011011001 011111010101000101 11011010001 11011111110001 11111110001 1101011110101 010101101001010101 1111010111010 101000111001010111 1011101010 1101011100011101 10001111101101 1010010110 1101010110010111100 1 10011001010010101 11100110 010110010 0101101101011010 10110 010110111010111100 111 0101101111100110 110 111010101111110 10101 01011011011001011 010 1101010 01010110001100010 01100101000100101 1010011011 010110110101111 10110 11001011 1010100101101 100110001 1001001001101 1010111010 1010010010111010 1101 010011011110 10101010010 01010001010100010 100 001010001001001 010100101011011 01010010001010000101 11010001 0111111101 0101010100110 01110011100100 10100111111101 11011010111001010 101 11010111001111 1 01101101001001101 10010 1100101110111111 101101101101001 01010 11010010111010100 1001 11011100100101100 1001011 0111110111101 11011010111100 1 011111111001010101 1 111011111110101001 10010100101111 11101010010001011 111100101 1011101110101 110111011111 1101010010011011 11010101110011 1111100011101100010 1101111101101 101011011001111 10101 11000101011110101 101001 0010101010001100 111 01010111010010 0101000101000011 1010111011010100100 101001100010100 10100 111001010001101 10100100100100101 0110110110101101 1 1101001001110101001 1010101101001101001 11001 1101001011001111 010101 10101 1010001000010010 10100100001 0111011111001 01100111011 011000111 0110010101010001 1010010110001011 01010011011110010 1 101011 01000111111 0011000100111110 11100 10101011 0010010010110101011 01 010011001101010 01011100101 010011100110011 001011010010101010000 1 110100101 1001010100101110 1 10011101100111 1011010010111010 1001010101110 111101 11010101 10011101010101 100101010101110100 1010 010001010010010101 11 100101011111 01010101001010011 010100111 11110101110111 11110001001101 01110100100 11101011011101010 011100101010110 1010010100 110010011010101 111101110100101 01001011011000110 110 1101011000010001110 010110 1110101011101 11010101010100010000 1010001010001 1001111010 1001111010101011 001 00010100101101001 1010011101100010 00010001000111111 011101010010101 010100010010010 01101 000101 10101001 0101010001 0101001000101110 10 01111101001110001 011111 101111010011 0111011111111 000100011111 0101101111100111 0111011011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 41
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 224
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, full, o, it, and, i, to, once, more, with, my, in, me, for, something, his, see, again, he, joy, joys, no, sail are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words full, o, i, to, the, my, something, joy, joys, a are repeated.

    The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines song, time, more, me, eyes are repeated).

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