This is an analysis of the poem For I Must Sing Of All I Feel And Know that begins with:

For I must sing of all I feel and know,
Waiting with Memnon passive near the palms, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc bdbdee fgfghh ebebgg ieieee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111011111 1001110101 01010011111 1111000101 0011011111 0111010001 1111010101 01010101010 01110111011 01010101010 0111011111 0101111111 1001010011 1100110101 1000110001 0101001111 0101000101 0101010101 11010001101 1111110111 1111110111 1111110111 1101011111 0101001111 1111011101 0101011111 1111110101 01011001001 0101011101 01010001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; and, of, their are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, their are repeated.

    The author used the same words for, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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