This is an analysis of the poem Lines Written In Recapitulation that begins with:
I could not bring this splendid world nor any trading beast
In charge of it, to defer, no, not to give ear, not in the least...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabc XdbXedXfe cfXXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110101110101 0100001110111001 0100110100 11110111 111100101010100 111111001101 01011101011110101 010101011101 110101 10011111111110 10111 010010011111 01001 11101111111 111101111 01011001101 1110101110100 01010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not, to, my, i 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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