This is an analysis of the poem To Various Persons Talked To All At Once that begins with:
You have helped hold me together.
I'd like you to be still....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbeXXfghhijXklahdfXgkmkXkjldXXXXjcjjiaamelc Xj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111010 111001 11011010111001 11111010110 1111011001 01011011100 110101101101 10110110000 10110101 111011 11110101 11110111 11100010 100110 0100111101 11110010 010110101 01110010 1010110111 11001 1111001110 1111110101 1011100011 010 01011100101 0100010 110101001101001 11110 01111100100001 11111111001 100000011101 110111110100 010011 111011011101 111101 11011111101111 1110101000101 11110111 0101101 01000101010101101101 1111100100 11101010 1101111111101 0101111101010 0110111101 1101011 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 913
- Average number of words per stanza: 177
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines off is repeated).
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