This is an analysis of the poem Words For Music Perhaps that begins with:

I - CRAZY JANE AND THE BISHOP
BRING me to the blasted oak... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbCdddXeeCfffXghCbbbXijcfffX X jgjgkkKkbkbeeK f kdkXDljmXJjdjXDejeXJ e feXedegcdcfcedfdfd d fdfnnDjdXhDhdhaaDldleeD a djnjeXedodXdpfefkX g momcmcOdodfdfOjojXjfO q enenfdfdqdqd q dXdedendndXXfjfjfj i fqjfqJrojroJ h jejeprnbnbhh h gdhdhdseleqe c jcjcfmfm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,28,1,14,1,20,1,18,1,23,1,18,1,21,1,12,1,18,1,12,1,12,1,12,1,8,1,12,1,18,1,18,1,8,1,18,1,24,1,31,1,8,1,18,1,6,1,6,1,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011010 1100101 11110101 1110001 11110101 01011111 1010111 01011010 11110101 1010101 1110001 1111101 11111001 11111111 01011010 01010111 10101001 1110001 11110101 01010101 1011111 01011010 1110100 11100111 1110001 1010001 11010100 11110111 01011010 1101100 11110101 1110101 1111101 1111101 1010101 11010101 101101 011101011 010100101 001001001 1010101 11011101 01010101 101101 1101101010 101 0101 110101 1011 110111 1010 0111 11111 11111 110001011 1011 0111 1011001 111 110111 1101 1110 110111 010110 110001011 1101110101 1111111 110001 011101100 010101 11010101 010111 0101010 10111 1110101 110001 1100011 01101 10110101 01101 01111101 11101 1010111 11111 110111 110001 1111 100101 101111 1111 110101 10101 1111 100101 00101 110101 011101 10111 10100100 10011 0101 110101 11111010 1101 11110 110111 111 110101 110110010 11010101 111111 11111101 111101 10010010 10111 1111101 111111 11111101 111101 10100100 10011 11010111 11101 11110100 010100 11010111 11101 11011111010 111100101 1000101 11110111 11010011 110010011 11011011 1010101 11111111 11111111 1010111 11111001 1110101 1111111 1010101 0111011 1011111 1000111 110101110 11110101 1011111 1010101 111 11101 010111 110101 1111 010101 110101 010101 1111 111111 110101 111111 1111 1111 101011 1001010 01011 11111 010101 110101 101111 110101 111101 010101 110111 0101110 011101 101101 11001 111101 010101 010101 100100 10101 0101001 11111 10101 001101 1111 110101 10101 11111 100111 10101 1111 10100 010101 1101 010001 111 110001 10101 111101 1111 110111 1101 1001001 110101 11100 1101110 11101 01010100 1111 1110011 10111 0101011 10011 101010 100101 111010 11111 101 11101111 11100101 11111101 11011101 11010101 00110001 11010101 1000101 1010 1101010 110101 0100110 1001 11101 11101 1101110 010101 1111110 101111 010011 110101 111 11011111 1010101 11110111 10010101 010010011 01110011001 1111101 1010101 11011111 1110101 110101110 01110011001 11111101 1010101 1110111 1011101 1010111 01110011001 1101 01011101 1110111 1010101 01010111 1010101 1110101 1010101 1011101 10101101 1111111 1011101 1111111 1011111 01100101 1010111 01001100 0010101 11000101 110110 110110001 11010100111 0101011001 0101010101 1110110110 0100110111 10010000101 1111010100 1110111 111010 10111 11111101 11101 11011110 110111 1011101 10101 11010101 110001 011110001 110111 11111111 111101 11011101 110101 11010100 110111 1110111 11110011 110111 1111101 10101 1011101 01101 1100100101 0100101 11111101 110001 1011101 010111 11110101 100101 1100100101 0100101 11010101 10101 01111001 110101 11110111 100111 1100100101 0100101 1110100 10100 101010100 111111 110100 11010100 111101 010101 110101 011101 110101 100111 111111 10111 110100 101010100 111111 110100 11010100 0100111 10101100 0110100 1010111 1010011 1101100 1100101 111111 110100 101010100 111111 110100 11010100 10101101110 1010110 0111111 11001111 1110101 01110101 11111111 10011011 0100101001 110101 1110101 11100100 11111101 111111101 1110101 1010101 10110110010 1010101 1010101 11010101 10111110 11110001 10010111 11111 1110111 1010101 01010001 0111111 11110 110111 111001 111101 110100 100101 101001 11101 1100101 11110101 11010101 1010101 1011101 1011101 101010001100 01111001 01111 11000101 1010111 11101 1010101 110101 1011101 1101000 1101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 50
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 418
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; that, be, and, her, die, young, i, of, ', or are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, all, i, such, and, in are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ireland, lunatic are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words god, snow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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