This is an analysis of the poem I Am 'First' A Human Being that begins with:
I had walked around for decades,
Feeling and shouldering emotional pain....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab bbXXXa Cdbb CXdXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,6,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101101 10110001001 11010111001 10100111010 011101 0010011100 11101101 111001 11101010 111101001011 011101 10101111 11101010 10101011011 111010001 1011101001010 1 111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; i, to, that are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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