This is an analysis of the poem To Myself that begins with:
AFTER all, you are my rather tedious hero;
It is impossible (damn it!) to avoid ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXabcdeXcdbeXfbefcXdXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011111010010 00010010001 1011111 111111100 1011101010 1110010110001 11111010001 1011000101 1001010 01111101 0010011 00110010011 1111101101 10110101001 1101010 10010101 1100101111 1111010111 11001101101 010000100101 10101011100 11111111 11000100 0111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 976
- Average number of words per stanza: 172
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; you, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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