This is an analysis of the poem The Author's Early Life that begins with:
I will write a sketch of my early life,
It will be of childhood day,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabacdadeefeghih bbebigeg ejkjiaca XdedgeXf gdedkfkl cemembbb ldidilhf ffjfbXfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1010101101 0000111 1111010 110101 1111010 1011101 0110011111 1010101 001011011 110111 010001110 1110101 10110111 1010101 10010101111 1000101 111010111 1010101 100110011 110001 110011111 110101 1010001010 011101 11011010 1111001 111001010 011101 1111010 1010111 11101010 110111 11010010 1101001 111101001 1001111 0110100 0110101 1011100010 110101 1011100011 10101101 11101110 11011101 1111010 10011001 10101010 1100101 1111110 0110011 10101010 1111101 111000010 011101 00110101001 00101111 01101101 0111111 011010101 1011101 0110011001 111001 10010111 00101101 11111111 1011101 01110101 010101 11111111 1110110 111001111 1111000
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, it, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, if, it are repeated.
The author used the same words i, my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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