This is an analysis of the poem Who Am I that begins with:
Who am I
I don't know...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXba cadec ccXX cfega hihfXg iede ghigg gXecja igbjejhXAjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,5,6,4,5,6,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 111 11111 110100101 1110 1111 11110 1010101110 10101101001 110100 1010010 1111100100 1100111111 1101 111011 111111011 1110111111011 10111011010101 1101 110111010 01001001011 11100001101 1101001101111 110101111010001 11110 111010 010101010 1111110111 11010 11101111 111010010 11101010011 110110011011 110100 101101100 0011111 111011010010 01010011111 1010101101111 110010 1010111 111111100 11011001110 0101111011010 11110100101110 111101010100010 111 11011 11110100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 49
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, so, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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