This is an analysis of the poem Expectans Expectavi that begins with:
From morn to midnight, all day through,
I laugh and play as others do,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeee ffgg hhee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011111 11111101 11110101 110001001 11110101 11110111 101001101 01010101 11010111 10011101 01111101 01011111 01010011 01011111 100110111 01010101 01011011 110011101 1110111 01110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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; and, i, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, a are repeated.
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