This is an analysis of the poem The Motto Of This Baring Of One's Soul that begins with:
I 'used' to invite those,
Who disliked me......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccX X Xdbee aX fccX Xb bbdg h aadfeh geXhefXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,1,5,2,4,2,4,1,6,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100011 1011 0011 001000 0100011110100 11001110 0010001101 011101 110011101 11101 1111011010 111011101 0101100101 1010101 01011110 011 1010011101 11111010 0100101 11001 1110101 01111 1001010 0100010011 110010010 011 11010100010 1101101001 011001010 00101010010000100 1101011101100 1001010 11111 00101101001000 1 1011101 11111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 37
- 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:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to 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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