This is an analysis of the poem I Close My Eyes that begins with:
I close my eyes like a good little boy at night in bed,
as I was told to do by my mother when she lived, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX XXb ccb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111001011101 1111011110111 101111111111010 111111100011 11110100101101000101 110111111011010110 11101101110001010 101101011100101101 110110101001111 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i 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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