This is an analysis of the poem I Cautious, Scanned My Little Life that begins with:
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I cautious, scanned my little life—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X Xaba XcXc XXXX XXXa Xcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1101110100 111111 01111111 100101 110100010 010101 1111010 111101 1101010000 110101000 10010100 010101 1001010 1001010 1010100 110001 1101011 100101 11010101 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; whether is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, was, whether 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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