This is an analysis of the poem The Singer that begins with:
Nay! sing no more thy wild delusive strain
(I heard them say, while I my song pursued),... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdXeXebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111111001 1101111101 11010101001 1101111101 1111010101 0101010101 1111010101 1011011101 01010111110 1101010101 11010010101 1111110101 11010100101 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 603
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of are repeated.
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