This is an analysis of the poem Bulla! I Know Not Who I Am that begins with:
Bulla! I know not who I am
Nor am I a believer of the mosque,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: A XXb XXX cXd bA bXb XXc cXX XA XdXXXAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,3,2,3,3,3,2,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111111 1110010001 111010000101 1110101001 1110100010 1110101000 11111001 1111011 11101000100 111010101 1111011 10111111 1111001001 111010010010 1111010100 10101100001 101011011 101111 0101111101 110100100 11111 100101 10111111 11110110 1111011 111101010100100 100100110 10111111 10111111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 82
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, bulla are repeated.
The author used the same word nor 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 self, am are repeated).
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