This is an analysis of the poem The Spirit Medium that begins with:
POETRY, music, I have loved, and yet
Because of those new dead... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXb BB XcXcXb BB XdaXdbXBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,2,6,2,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001011111 010111 110011101 010001 1101011000 10001 11110001 1100101 1101011000 111101 11101000 1110100 1101110 1000111 11110001 1100101 1111110 010001 1001101110 100100 0111011 1101 11110001 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
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