This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Fortune Vi that begins with:

Man and I are sweethearts
He craves me and I long for him, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefageh iaaXjk lbajk ikdfc kkh kiea mmadkehgij kik kkd dinl ccjnkgk Xib
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,5,5,3,4,10,3,3,4,7,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 11111111 101011101 010111100 10101010 010101 01010 11001011 1101010010 1000110 11110100010 1001101 11011110 1100100100 10111101 0101010 11110010 10101010 11110110 101100010 010011001 1110010010 1110111101 01010010100 111111 010101 1101111101 111111111 100110110 101111001101 1010111011 10110101001 1101 11011 1111001111 011101011 1110010000010 11110101010 11001001 0101110 11011101100 01001001111 1010010010 101001101010 1010101101 00100011 11101010 10011101011 101011111010 110111001110 0100001 1100100101 1101010111 1010111011 1111001011 1110110010 110001001 111 110100101 11 10111 1100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 73
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; him, of, he, me, in, his are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words i, he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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