This is an analysis of the poem Wanting To Die that begins with:
Since you ask, most days I cannot remember.
I walk in my clothing, unmarked by that voyage....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc dee bcf dgh iai jeg kji Xek Xfe jeXXehe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111110010 110110011110 1011100101 1011110011 111011110 01001111001 1101101010 1100110111 110111 1111100111 1010100100100 110101010 00110110 1011110 1110101011 101101101101 100100101101001 101101001010 1111111 11011010111 1101011111 011111011 1110101010 1011111 1111111101 01100001111 0101100110 101101011 101010111 1001101101 100100110010 100101101 101110011010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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, have, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words have, i, to, leaving are repeated.
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