This is an analysis of the poem To The Many that begins with:
I -- am your voice, the warmth of your breath,
I -- am the reflection of your face,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cdcbeffbXXXeed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101011 110010011 0101000101 11010110101 11111001 101101011 11101001 101011 11110101 1110101 11010100101 0101 1110010001110 010001110000 10110010101 10100110101 111100010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of, your, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, as are repeated.
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