This is an analysis of the poem Psychoanalysis: An Elegy that begins with:
What are you thinking about?
I am thinking of an early summer....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcaXcdefaaggghg I bdecbebjbgddkg J egcglheahecflihXik I lgecXgi JXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,15,1,14,1,18,1,7,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001 1110011010 1110011001 1010100 110100111000 10011110001 11110110 101110101010 100110 0110010100 10101110011 1100101011 1101110 111111010 101011 10111110110 11110 111111010101011010 111010 110011101010001010 1001001001 1010110010 111010101111010 1111010 1111100110011 10101010 1110101 101110111101 110001000111 0110111 101101 111101 11011010111010 1101010101011 10011101 11011 00110100010 11101 11101010101010 11011010 111011110 101010011101010 111101 11110101110 10 101110110 1100100100 1011010101111 10101000110 0011001 11110 111001101010 0001011010 0101010 010111 01011000 10011010 01110111010 111101 11101010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thinking, down, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, down, as, send, will, until are repeated.
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