This is an analysis of the poem In Former Songs that begins with:
IN former songs Pride have I sung, and Love, and passionate, joyful
Life,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb baXc bcXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101111111110010 1 11110101001011 111111001011 011100101 1101110100010101 110101 111101 11111101010101001 01110101101101 1101000101011101 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 13
- 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; and, to, you, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines death is repeated).
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