This is an analysis of the poem Walk With Your Head Held High that begins with:
Walk,
With your palms open....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBCdEFGE HH acbbc aIJI IhXIhc aIJI aIXHGi aIXg i aBCdceFeah IXI aIkkXeie EFGEHHhc ahf aIJI aIXHGi kii fgXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,2,5,4,6,4,6,4,1,10,3,8,8,3,4,6,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 01110 110111 010 0111110010010 011011 11101 10010 01101 00111111 1 011101 11011111 1001 0101 1 01111 1010111 011111 101110011 001101 01100 0110001 101 111101 1 01111 1010111 011111 1 01111 0110011 0110011 01 01 1 01111 1010101 011101 01 11 01110 110111 010 01111 0010010 011011 1110110 011111 11010001 101110011 00111100 0110001 1 01111 10100 11011110 01010101 111101010 1011010101 0110 0111110010010 011011 11101 10010 01101 00111111 1111 0111111101 011010101 011011110 1 11 01111 1010111 011111 1 01111 0110011 0110011 01 11 11100 010101 1101 10111 0101 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; it, you are repeated.
The author used the same word walk at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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