This is an analysis of the poem I'Ll Satisfy Your Mind that begins with:
When you tire of the numbers,
That make you slumber fast to sleep....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDXdee CFGHIEE ABCDXCFGHIEE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100010 11110101 101110111 0100011 11101010101001 101 11111110110 011 101110010111 1011100 10110 010101 10111110 110001 111101 11100010 11110101 101110111 0100011 101110010111 1011100 10110 010101 10111110 110001 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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