This is an analysis of the poem He Parts Himself—like Leaves that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abcb caXa cdXd cefe Xdfd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 110111 111101 1101010 010101 111101 110001 11110 101010111 110101 010001 01000101 110001 110111 010001 01001100 110111 010101 010001 0100101 110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 83
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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