This is an analysis of the poem The World's Way that begins with:
My heart was wide to all the world,
Nor any thought at all I had,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aababcXc XcbcddXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 11011111 111101111 11110101 01110101 11010101 11011101 11010101 01111101 11110111 011101001 110100101 11110011 01010001 10011101 01011100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, had are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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