This is an analysis of the poem Hypochondriacus that begins with:
By myself walking,
To myself talking,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcdddXaeeXbXeXccaaffX XXdXXXdeegXgccc X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,15,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 01110 111101 110011 1011 010100 1101000 101100 11100 111010 10110 010110 1011000 100100 100100 10110 11000 10111 10011 011100 011100 111100 111100 11100 110000 10100 111100 100100 101000 110100 1000100 110010 10010 100100 101000 110100 100101 101001 100101 1001010111010100001000
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; 'thy, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, 'thy are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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