This is an analysis of the poem Between Egos that begins with:
I thought you were competing?
I was told that to believe....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbAb bcdX ecf ecefX Xe gghhX Xai XhX h ehidX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,5,2,5,3,3,1,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010 1111001 1110010 111101001 1111001001 1110100101000 10100101101 111110110100 1 010 1111 110101001010 1110001010100 01101001010 11110110000101 0110 10 10110111001 1111 110001001 111 010001 0010100101 1111 111110 1101001010110 1 11010 101111 111 10010111001 11001001110 1110010 10110110 0001001001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of Between Egos;
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- idea of the verse;
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