This is an analysis of the poem Beethoven that begins with:
O Master, if immortals suffer aught
Of sadness like to ours, and in like sighs... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXbaXbcdeedc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1100010101 0101011011 1011010101 1000111110 11011101001 01010101001 1110010000 11010100101 1111010101 11110101100 11110010111 1001001001 1101011111 1011010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 586
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; like is repeated.
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- summary of Beethoven;
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