This is an analysis of the poem Star-Gazers that begins with:
WHAT crowd is this? what have we here! we must not pass it by;
A Telescope upon its frame, and pointed to the sky:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccaa ddbb ccdd eeff ffaX aagg ccXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11001111111101 01010101110001 10010101110101 11010111110101 010101011100101 1011000110101111 110100011110001 11011101111100 110111011110011 01011101110101 10001101101101 11111100010101 010011001101111 11011101110101 010101011101001 11011111111101 10010101010011 110101111010101 10011101010111 11010001110101 11100101111001 10010101100101 111101110111101 110100111101100 11011101010101 01110111011101 11011101011101 01100101110101 11000111111111 10101011110101 11011111111110 11110101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, or, it, of, one are repeated.
The author used the same word or at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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