This is an analysis of the poem My Sad Self that begins with:
To Frank O’Hara
Sometimes when my eyes are red ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abccdacXccdeadfdghccXi ajbgggaXefc jXddgdikigX fegdidgX bXggkgdadccahX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,22,11,11,8,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010 0111111 1111100110 11111010 11011110 111101 1111011110101 0111010101 10010101 1010001011101001 111101101111 10011101 1101111 110101011 1110010001 101 11001101 1100111100 1100010 11011111 0110000010 0110100 10010 1 110101011 1100 111010100011 10010 1001011 1101 01011001100 101011 10101111011011 1010101 1011110100 00101110101 1101 110010100010 100101010 1101101001 1111010010 011011 1111010 1101010101101 10001000 0110100011 1100101 0100110 11001 010010 1101010010 11101010 10101 111110 11110100 1101 11110110001 111010 101110 110000 101011 010 111110 11 10011010 00101 110101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 355
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 71
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, in are repeated.
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