This is an analysis of the poem I Am 25 that begins with:

With a love a madness for Shelley
Chatterton Rimbaud...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXabbbbXXbaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001010110 10010 10101011 110101 11110 0100110101 10110110 1111010 101011 1111 111 1111011 1001111 111011 1001 11100100011 11101001 11110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 546
  • Average number of words per stanza: 94
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; old, poetmen, who, then are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines then is repeated).

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