This is an analysis of the poem Quand Meme that begins with:

I strove, like Israel, with my youth,
And said, Till thou bestow ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded ffff ghgh bfbf didi jdjdXieie
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110011 111101 01111111 101111 11011111 010001 10010111 010111 11110111 110111 11010101 111101 11110101 111101 11111111 010101 01101111 010101 01010111 110101 10110111 111001 1100101011 010101 11001101 010111 10010101 110011 11110101 010101 01110101 110101 11011111 111111 110011101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; on, my are repeated.

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

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