Analysis of The Mousai
There’s a well
in your meadow
only music can fill
It’s deeper
and wider
and calls to you still
With its bucket
overflowing
and rope fastened tight
Sweet melodies
waiting
— to quench your delight
(The New Room: February, 2024)
| Scheme | XXA BBA XCD XCD X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 011 101011 110 010 01111 1110 100 01101 1100 10 11101 011100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 240 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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