This is an analysis of the poem On My Songs that begins with:
Though unseen Poets, many and many a time,
Have answered me as if they knew my woe,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdXdcacaXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 101101011001 1101101111 1011110111 0011111001 0111010111 1111111101 1101111111 1011111101 1111111100 11000100101 1001010111 1101110011 1001110110 1011110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 639
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; my is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase throbs connects the lines.
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