This is an analysis of the poem On Music that begins with:
MANY love music but for music’s sake;
Many because her touches can awake...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011011101 1001010101 1101010111 1101011101 11001010111 1101110101 1111001101 1100111101 111100111001 0101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 434
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
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