This is an analysis of the poem Mind-Body Problem that begins with:
When I think of my youth I feel sorry not for myself
but for my body. It was so direct...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdaXcdXcbeaXeeXeXbceddfXfgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11101111101111 1111001101 110110000010 1000101110 11001001 101001001010 010110100101 011111101010 011111111110 010010011001010 11110011010 10100101011010 100101001001 0101100101000 11001001 110111011011 01111001011011 01011001 01111101100 0111011010010 11101101110011 001001111011010 110101011010 0100101001010 011111100100 10111101111 1110011100 010011101101 110101011110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1311
- Average number of words per stanza: 238
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of is repeated.
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