This is an analysis of the poem Self-Portrait that begins with:
After Adam Zagajewski
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXXabbcdXcXcdebedafgXehedgdddbXhhhfa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,36,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101000 11101110001 11011 1111110 01101001 1001111 001001 110101010 1111010 01010001101 101101010 110011 0011110 001000110 1010010 11001 11011010 011111110 00101011 101100101 1110110 01011 011011 1000110010 010100001 01011001010 01100010 10000101 1111001001 110101110 101110100 0010101 11110110111 01010111001 001000001 11011001 1010111110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 589
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, as, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, as are repeated.
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