This is an analysis of the poem The Double Image that begins with:

1.
I am thirty this November....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abbcabcdefd fgghXghgiXg ijjhiXhjfhj effdefXekke X feihiH gagahiH ihihhiH lleihiH X ieiieccjicjc jmjjmhainaia X goionoihn fbhajbXcj chbhhhbeh X gnfnff pcecpe XnhXeh caeace ifejie XiXenf X ecbceb enceXc mgfmcn afhfah X ogioigiXgcgmcmXeniiineenbanbn
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,11,11,11,11,1,6,7,7,7,1,12,12,1,9,9,9,1,6,6,6,6,6,6,1,6,6,6,6,1,29,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 11100010 11110111 1110010111 1000101 1011111010 10011010111 1111011101 1111110101 101000100 1011101001111 11101 11111 011111111 01011111 0101010 01111110100 0111101010101 110111110 1110011101 1101010 101110110111100 1111101 11100111 01111111 110101011101 1010111 0101110101 1011011101000 01010100101 1101010100101 010101 11111111110101 0011101 011111 1111101 10110100101010 101111 00101101111 111101100100 0011111101 0111101011101 011011 11110011011111 1111100 1 1111001 01111100111101 1111010101 111101100101 1110111110 101 111010 1101101010 1010100111 01101001110 1100111011101 1110111110 101 1111101 10101011111 1010110001 111010111101 11011100101 11010111110 101 11011111 0011011111 1111100111 10010110101 110001010101 11001001011110 101 1 11101001 100111 1101 1011 111010111 110101 10010111101 10110110110 11110100010 1011001101 100010 00010101 11110001 1110 10111 1011011 1101101010 10101 101101100100 1101011111101 10100101111 1111010 110111 1111010 1 11011 111 00101 010011 10011 011010 11100001 0110010111 01 100110 111 11010 01010 11011 1011011 1101011000 0111101101 101 110010 101 10101 010111 111101 1010101 101010101 11011111110 10 1 1111011 10101 100001010 0110011 101101 111011110 1110111 10011 101100011 0101001 111101 111011101 11011111 11111 110111010 1110101 101011 101001110 1011101 11110 11111100 1111110 110110 010010100 1010111 010011 0101001111 111010111 101101 10111010111 1110100 01111 1101101111 100111 1101001 11101101001 1 011110101 011111 11110101111 1011000101 001011 0101 011010101 0110101 10110101101 11110111011 110101 1111 010111010 1101101 011111001011 01101111110 1110111 1001 101010010 1101011 1011010101 01110100101 111110 111 1 111111 0111111 11100100010 111111011101 1111010 01101111 1101101001 11101011011000 1101001 11101101 111111111 100101110110 1111101101011001 110101010 10101111 111111 1111101 1111111 1111101 1101110101 100101101 00101010101001 0011111 1111011 01100110010 1010100011 1011111111 110111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 32
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 217
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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, to, you, me, of, my, past, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, as, tried, my, you, like, of are repeated.

    The author used the same words i, in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines up is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word instead at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Double Image;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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