This is an analysis of the poem My Books And I that begins with:

My books and I are good old pals:
My laughing books are gay,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbacadeceXadacdddXXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111011 110111 11011101 111101 11110101 110111 11111111 111101 11100101 010011 11011101 011101 11110111 110101 111101011 011111 11110101 011111 01010111 110101 11110101 1101010 11110011 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 710
  • Average number of words per stanza: 146
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; my, and, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, and are repeated.

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  • summary of My Books And I;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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