This is an analysis of the poem I Threw My Arms About Those Shoulders that begins with:

M.B.
I threw my arms about those shoulders, glancing ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXXXXaaXbXXbXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 11110111010 11010111 110111010 10100101 0111101 01010001010 1101100110 1010100010 0101100110 0111100101 011011100100 1010111010 10110101 101010101 10110101111 1111010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 377
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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