This is an analysis of the poem I Have Been Doing This For Many Years that begins with:
Who am I to say,
What will and will not take place......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXcbdX XcadcXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 1010111 011 0111001 10011010 1010001010000111 1111100100 1010101 1101001111 1110111010 0110111001 101011 1101001100 11110101 01101100 001111010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; to is repeated.
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