This is an analysis of the poem This May Have Confused Them that begins with:
Never have I said,
I was something that I am not....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXa aXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111 11101111 110111011010 1111001100001 1011010 11101001011010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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 is repeated.
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