This is an analysis of the poem My Soul And I that begins with:
When winter shuts a fellow in and turns the lock upon his door,
There's nothing else for him to do but sit and dream his bygones o'er....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabb ccXddee ddccaX aXaffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,6,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010011010101 11011101111101110 11011101011011001 1101010101010101 11010101110010101 1101010111110101 1101010111110111 1101000111011101 111111001111110 1 1101011111010101 1101010101011101 1011011101011101 1111111111111001 1111110111111101 1101011001011101 1101010111110011 11011101110100001 1111010111110100 10010011101110011 0111010111110110 1 0101011111110101 0011111111010100 0101011011110101 1100100111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 409
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and, i, for, you are repeated.
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- summary of My Soul And I;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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