This is an analysis of the poem I Have The Wisdom Of One Condemned… that begins with:
I have the wisdom of one condemned to die,
I possess nothing so nothing can possess me ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaBXcXXddacdbXXXeeXaBX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010010101 101101101011 1110100111 101000111010 11111111011 11011010 101 111010 1110 1110011110111 1010011 1010111 11010011 110110110 1010101 101110 0100101000101 11011 111111111 11101101101011 1110100111 101000111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 819
- Average number of words per stanza: 159
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; my, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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