This is an analysis of the poem The Three Me's that begins with:

I'd like to steal a day and be
All alone with little me,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffdd aagghheebbiidd bbaaggccjjddgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010110 1010101 1011101 1010101 1010101 1111101 1010101 1010101 1011101 1010101 1010101 1011101 1010111 1111101 1111100 1010101 1011101 1010101 1110101 0010111 1010101 1100101 1010111 1001111 1001101 1010101 1011101 1010101 1110101 0011101 1010101 1011100 1010101 01100101 1110111 1011101 1110111 1100101 1111001 0011101 1110101 1010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 411
  • Average number of words per stanza: 81
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; to, and are 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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