This is an analysis of the poem I Think Just How My Shape Will Rise that begins with:
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I think just how my shape will rise—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1111110100 1110100000 110010001010 110100100 111111010 010000000000 11001000000010 0100001100 1111010000 1101100 01110100000 1111001 1111110000000 0110000000 11110010000 11110000
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more 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; 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 i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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