This is an analysis of the poem A Magician I Am Not that begins with:
Every now and then,
I have to stop to convince myself......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb cbXa debX edXedeeebfg adhdXagXd hdcd BbggghdebX BegbgbdfXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,11,9,4,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 100111 110100111 0010111 1111011 11111010 10101 001001101010 111101 1100010 10111001 0101001100010 11111110111 11110100101 001101 001001110101 1110111 11000100101 11110111 11010 111 1110110111 1110101101 11110101 1011101 10100001 111101010 1011110100 1111000100010 001101 1110111101 1010111010101 110100100100 110100101 111101 01110101 101111111111 0110011010001 0101001010101 0010001101010 01000111100 110100010101 101011100101 01010101001010 010111 0100101110101000 101111111111 1001 100100 11101010111 1010010 10100110101 00011100101 1 010010000101 10100011101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; to, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, there are repeated.
The author used the same word everyday at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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