This is an analysis of the poem Am I All Those Things Meant? that begins with:
Sometimes cautious,
And often with a consciousness....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcb XXdXe ffe dafXXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110 11000100 1101110001 01010110100 1010100011 1110110 111111 010001 1100 111111 11010110 00110010 0111 11101010 11010 111101 111111 110110 1101100 1011001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same word have at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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