This is an analysis of the poem I Grew. Foul Weather, Dreams, Forebodings... that begins with:
I grew. Foul weather, dreams, forebodings
Were bearing me - a Ganymede - ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba XcXc XdadXbdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011000 01010101 010101110 11010101 110101011 11110111 010101110 01010111 110101010 01010101 011111110 01110001 111101010 11010111 010100010 10010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; to 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.
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