This is an analysis of the poem That Music Always Round Me that begins with:

THAT music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning--yet long untaught
I did not hear;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXacdXcbXXdXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111101010001110 1011 110101111010 0101010010110110 1111 00101100101001001001 1 0010110010010110 101 0010100100100111 0011111110 111010011011110100 10 11000100101001110 01001000100011100010 1111001010111111 01010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 855
  • Average number of words per stanza: 131
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; i is repeated.

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