This is an analysis of the poem Alter Ego that begins with:
ALL the morn a spirit gay
Breathes within my heart a rhyme, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eeee fgfg gcgc haha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1011101 1111111 0110101 1010111 1010111 1110101 10101011 0011101 1010101 1111101 1110111 1110001 1010010010 0010101 10101010 1010111 1010101 1011011 1111101 1110101 1010110 1110101 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Alter Ego;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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