This is an analysis of the poem In Memory Of My Feelings that begins with:

My quietness has a man in it, he is transparent
and he carries me quietly, like a gondola, through the streets....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abc cXcadaaeceXXXadXcXXbacfbbfgabXagcXcgbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,38,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001010010010 1110110010010101 1110010011101100 110010100101 110101111001100 01011100101110 1110011 1010 1111100010 101101 1101 1100011 111100100010010010010 0110010101011 1111111 011 110011010 1010001001110010 011010101000 10110 0101110110011101 10100100010101100 11011111101111 11111111011 1010101101010010101 01 110010100110101 100111011010 010110010101 010100101010 10010 111010110101011 1110010110101 1100111011 10 11001101010101 101101101011011 10101 10111000110110 0110001010001 1100010010100100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 959
  • Average number of words per stanza: 164
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; like, he, has, and, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of In Memory Of My Feelings;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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