This is an analysis of the poem I Tie My Hat—i Crease My Shawl that begins with:
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I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl—... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X abXc XcdcefefcdddXgegbhXhiaiii XdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,25,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11111111 110101010 10101 010001 11110001 110101 11010011 110111 01101101 111101 11010111 111101 11010101 100101 11010101 110101 1101011001 010101 01000101 010111 01010100 110101 0111100 111111 110 1110 111101 1100110 110001 1111110 110101 0100100 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; it is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to 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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