This is an analysis of the poem He Struck Me! that begins with:
HE struck me!
A man I scarce knew, 'though he had ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbccddaXA AddeeddfAf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 01111111 11 10011001001 11101000101 01111111011 01001001001 111101101001 11111111001 11011111111 111 111 11101101011 101011011111 01011001011 11011111111 01001001011 11111001101 111101111011 111 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 396
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; that, my, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
The author used the same word he 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 me is repeated).
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