This is an analysis of the poem My Kindred that begins with:
I grow aweary of my kind-
Its petty aims, its creeds... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc Xdbdabab eXebbdbd bbbbdfdf bXXXbdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100011 010101 11011111 01011 10000101 010111 010001001 1100101 11011001 010111 11000111 010101 11011101 010111 11111101 110101 11010111 010100 11010111 010101 11010001 101101 01010101 110111 11111111 1101010 11011101 110011 010010111 110111 01011111 110100 1110011 010110 11000111 111101 11110011 101101 100101000 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; its, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words its, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of My Kindred;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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