This is an analysis of the poem Self-Portrait At 28 that begins with:
I know it's a bad title
but I'm giving it to myself as a gift...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdefXghig aXbjhcack ckellbb mhhmaXnk jooX olfkljb k jmmehnoigbjddo mlXpobaiX bbgnjhg obbajaio n bohj clmhXoj aohXlobchkg oXcmb oXXbo bai i jomfobhggqk aobg n eoohk orfr hojehnfhbo q abnehcc oibsb oobjo lhlhintjn aebkhoj h oaosggh q hnhkthhmjg nppg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,9,7,8,4,7,1,14,9,7,8,1,4,7,11,5,5,3,1,11,4,1,5,4,10,1,7,5,5,9,7,1,7,1,10,6,1,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100110 10100011101 1011010111 1001010010 0010010 10001011110 111101111101 001010110 111010010 1101001 1110001 0111 000101 01101011101100 100010111 000111011 0111010111 111100110 101110100 01110110 01101 111001110 11101101001 1111110010100 1110010111 1111111 1011110010101 11111111010 1111010010010 1010010110 0011110 1011010110010 010010111 1011101010 1101110101 11011011111 01110110 1101011101 0101010 11111111 1010100101100 1001110011 10111111101 01001000010101111 010100011101001 111000100111101 0101011110000010 11 11010101 11111010010 10010111010 101110 0100100010 1111011001 100100111010 11001101 001101111 100101001011 1110010110 01110101010 011111101010 1110001100111010 0111100110 0011011 101010110101100 101100110 010010110 1101011 111011111100 100110101 111010110 1101111 0111011 1000011101 01110011 0110110101010 010011000101 1011010111011 111010110011 100011110101 10100101 111001010110 1101011001 110101 1101 1011010 11 01001101 110101101100 110100111 01110100111 0010010 110101011 111010110 101011 11111110101 11110010 11011001 0101011 110111010 11110011 11010101110011 110101 11111 00100001 010110 1010010010 11101111 1011110110 01010010100 0101111001000 001101011010 101000110 1011 110100101 1111010 01001010100 101101001 0111010 1011010000101010 1111101000 01110011011 11 11111011 10101010001100 0101010 10101101 10101011 0111001010 011111111 11110010 01111011 101000010010011 111011001 0111010100100 101101110111011 011011100101 110101001 011001001 1010100 00100011110 101001001011 1010110110 1101 101001 101111 1110100111 1011 11110110100 0110010 11110 000110 1110111010 111010011001 011101 11010011001 110111 11101010 11 0111100110100 010010110011 10101 0100111100 10101001100 10010001110 101101101 01011111 1011010101 111001011 11010011 10111 0110010100 011011001 0101101 1100111010 00100111 11110111010 1010001 1010100011010 110001111010 100100110101 1001001 110111101 11010 11010111 111001110110 1110110 10110100 100111111001 11110010 10101001 1010011 11 11101000011100 1000101001010 1011100010 10101100101 111101010101 10001000101111 1110110 11111100110 1110010111 11100001001 10101000010 011010011 1110111 111101011 1101011 0101010 01011111011 1111101001 11 01110111101 11110011101 1111101 1101010 110101 11011 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 38
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 225
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; to, i, you, it, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, you are repeated.
The author used the same words i, i'm 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 hill, alaska, grass are repeated).
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