This is an analysis of the poem Self-Dependence that begins with:
Weary of myself, and sick of asking
What I am, and what I ought to be,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbb cdbd XeeX Xbcb fbfX agag XbaX hhbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001111010 111111100 1010111111 1010100101 1010100010 1001100111 1101111111 111011001 11101111110 111110101 1111111011 111010111 00011111010 10011101 0010111010 110111111 1000101010 100010111 1011101010 101010100 1010101110 1010111001 1111111010 1010011001 1010111000 011110110 0111111010 101010111 1111110101 0111011111 1000101111 1101100100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, me, them are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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