This is an analysis of the poem The Players Ask For A Blessing On The Psalteries And On Themselves that begins with:
Three Voices [together]. Hurry to bless the hands that play,
The mouths that speak, the notes and strings,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccabbacdbcdcaccaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001010010111 01110111 110001001 11010101 11000111 100111010 10010011 1110110101 11010101 11110101 110101010 10111111101 11011101 1111000101 11010111 01110111 110101001 11111101 11001001110111 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 800
- Average number of words per stanza: 147
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, hands are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, one are repeated.
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