This is an analysis of the poem My Heart And I that begins with:

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ENOUGH ! we're tired, my heart and I.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a abbXcca Xaddaeea XaeXXffa XAggaeea aAggadda aaXXadda Xaffacca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 011101111 11010111 11110111 01011100 01100101 110110111 011101111 1 111101111 11011101 10111101 10110111 11111101 11110101 111101111 1 110111111 11011001 110111100 011110000 11111101 11111101 11111111 1 1101101111 01110111 11101101 01011001 111101011 11011111 111101111 1 1101101111 11111101 01111111 11111001 01010101 11010111 1001001111 1 101111111 0101110 01110011 010110101 110101110 010111110 111101111 1 11011111 00010111 01011111 01010101 10010111 11011101 11111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; me, them are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, we are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines i is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word i at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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