This is an analysis of the poem A Poem Also About Duplicity that begins with:
It would be unfortunate if the idea of multiple selves
obscured the fact the self is still...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXX abb ccXXaX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,6,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01001000001001001 01010101 0100101001001 0100010010010 011100101 1110001001010 0101000101000101 00110 1010010100 0100101001 11011111 10100111111001 01010111 11011110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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 author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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