This is an analysis of the poem He And I that begins with:
Just drifting on together--
He and I--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBabcCCB cdXdeeed fBfbcccb gegehhheXaBabcCCB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 111 1101010 001 11101010 10111010 10101010 101 1101110 111 0101010 001 11111111 10111011 10011011 101 1111010 111 1101110 111 01010110 10111110 10101010 001 1101010 101 10110010 101 1111000 10101110 10111010 001 11100010 111 01111010 111 11101010 10111010 10101010 101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; us, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us is repeated).
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