This is an analysis of the poem Stanzas In Meditation: Stanza Xiv that begins with:
She need not be selfish but he may add
They like my way it is partly mine ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaXacdaeXabXfgXffXddhceeXhfggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110101111 111100101 0111001111 11111101 1101110111 01011111 11011011 00100011111 0110101001 1101010101010 111010101010 11111101101 1101101101 1111110111 111101100100 1011101 10011101101111 1001111111110 111110111 10110101011110 0101100011 1001001011101 001111110 100111 0010101110010 111110111010 11111 00110111100 10 0010101111111 11111111 00101111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1352
- Average number of words per stanza: 278
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; may, they, their, not, only, with, be, them, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, just are repeated.
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