This is an analysis of the poem Sonnets To The Sundry Notes Of Music that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaab cccd eeec aaaf XaaggffhhiieeXcgjX XccckbbXkcXllkkmaneaaadbbbdddffoocffccccabbbXXpffkpeXee Xmqmcff dqdcd dccccaa hahaeX pgpgee ciciqq qiqicX eceXff gbgbfX allpp kkpp pXXd ppll j bbll aaaffbbeeeennaaeeeeeeaaffbXaaffanffffccddbXkkcXeeggffooccii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,18,55,7,5,7,6,6,6,6,6,6,5,4,4,4,1,4,59,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1 0101010010101 110010111110 11011100011111 0101010 1101010110101 0101010110101 0101010010101 1001010 111001110101 110101010101 10010101110001 0111110 1101010110001 1101010010101 1101011110101 1111010 1 1011001 1111101 1010101 1000101 1010101 1011101 1010101 1010101 1111111 1111101 1011111 1011011 1101110 1110101 111111 1011100 10101110 1 1111 1111 1111 1001 1010 1010 110 1000 111011101 111010111 101110101 101010101 1101 1111 110101101 1111 0100 101010101 0111 1111 11011 1001 1010 1110 11010 1001 11011111 11011101 101111011 11111101 1111 0101 0101011101 1111 1101 10101010101 11011 1111 1111 111 1110 1110 1110 100 111010111 111010101 111010101 111011101 1111 1111 10110010111 1100 1101 10111111101 1 11111101 11011111 11011101 11110101 11001101 10111101 111101101 1111011 11110101 01011101 110111001 11110101 11010101 01010111 11111001 11100001 110101001 11011101 11110101 11111111 01010111 11110101 11001111 01111101 10001111 11011101 11101101 11001101 010101011 01010101 1110011 10110101 01110101 11010101 11110111 01011111 01111101 10001101 01111001 01110111 11110111 01011111 11010101 01110101 101101101 11011010 01010101 11010101 11011111 11110111 1011011101 01110011 10111001 010101100 1 1011011 11010101 11110111 11010101 10110101 11010111 11010111 010011100 1011101010 00101010 01010101 010101010 01011101 01011101 10110111 11011011 110 01011101 110100101 11010111 01011011 1 1010101 0010101 1000101 1010101 1011101 10111001 10010101 1010001 1111101 1011101 111010010 10101110 1111111 1010111 1010101 1110101 1011101 1110111 1111101 1110111 10111011 10110111 110101 1111101 1110111 1001100 1011111 1010101 1110101 1110101 10011101 0110100 1110101 1011101 10010011 11110001 1010101 1100111 0110100 1001011 1011100 1011001 0101101 1011001 0010101 1111000 1010111 1110101 11101101 1010011 1101101 1011011 0110101 0111101 10100101 1011101 1110101 10101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 226
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, not, in, all, our, and, to, of, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, my, all, the, he, if are repeated.

    The author used the same words and, there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines not, i, thee are repeated).

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