This is an analysis of the poem Nothing More Nor Is There Anything Less that begins with:
I am quite simple.
And I guess in that basicness, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXB XXccddeeXX AXB XXXXffeXdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,10,3,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 11101100 10001001101 11110010 110001 110111 0001010001 1111100111 111 10111001 1011011011 0101101 1010111 11110 11101100 10001001101 101011010 110111 001010100 1101 1011011 0101 10111011101 101110101110 11010 111 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is 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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