This is an analysis of the poem I Rose—because He Sank that begins with:
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- Rhyme scheme: X Xaaa bbc ddcc bXee ffbf cggc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,3,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 110111 11010100 110101 1111 111101 111101 110101 110111 110101 111 101 111111 101101 1111 0101 111111 11001 110101 0101 110101 110001 1111111111 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 79
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- 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; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, 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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