This is an analysis of the poem My Dreams, My Works, Must Wait Till After Hell that begins with:
I hold my honey and I store my bread
In little jars and cabinets of my will. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccXcdcdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011111 01011100010 1101011111 1101110101 11101011001 1111110111 01011111100 10110101011 11011111101 1111111011 11110010011 1101110100 01011110011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 537
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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