This is an analysis of the poem Others May Mistake A Duck that begins with:
I remember being defined,
By......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacabc dXdcd cebbfg eg dXddggdXfgedabgb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,6,2,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101001 1 11100100101 1000100100 110001101 110100 1110100110100 101010110111 1111010001011 1111001110 11101010 10110110001 10101001110100 1001000 1001011011111 01001011 101110010 111010001 1010101101010 101010100010110 010010011010001 11101110 1110101 10100011101001 1110110010010 0011100101011 101110100010 11110111010010 110101010011 0101010101001 01011100101 1101001 1011110010101 0101110110010 001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word 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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