This is an analysis of the poem Today I Do Not Stand Alone that begins with:
Please,
I need no praises of platitudes from you....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBCCDEF cghg ijkji klaXl aBCCDEFab halX gcXahddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,5,5,9,4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11110010101 1110101 0101010 101010101 111111011 10101000111 111011110 11001 11010010010 11010001 11110011 1101011110101 100111 1101111 11011011101 01111101 101110101 110101110 1111011011 111010101 1 11110010101 1110101 0101010 101010101 111111011 10101000111 111101101 011001101001 10111011011 10101010 0101111 01100011011 1111011101 01111101 1110100110 01111001 10100101101 1111101 0010101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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, 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 words i, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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