This is an analysis of the poem My Little Soul I Never Saw that begins with:
My little soul I never saw,
Nor can I count its days;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc cdcd efef gfgf ghgh iiii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 111101 11110101 111101 100111010 111001 101101010 111101 10010101 111111 11010111 110110 10011111 111101 11011101 110101 11110101 110111 11110101 110101 11111101 111111 11010100 010101 11110111 110101 11011111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less 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; i, its, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, my are repeated.
The author used the same words and, my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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