This is an analysis of the poem Come, Said My Soul that begins with:
Come, said my soul,
Such verses for my body let us write, (For we are One),... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabXbaXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 11011101111111 111101100001 11110101 10110101010 10011111001 100111111 10110001010111111 101111010011 110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 431
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; ever is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ever is repeated.
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