This is an analysis of the poem For Jessica, My Daughter that begins with:
Tonight I walked,
lost in my own meditation,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcXdebbXd feegedhda fdaXgiaigeXicda aahfaaffXhd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,9,15,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111 10111010 1101 100101 11110111 10011101 111001001 10010111 11111 00110 0001101 1000011100 01011 11110011001 10111 1010100 111011 10001 011001 1101 11011010 10011 10101011 101001 10001 0110010 101110 01010 10111101 1001001 11101001 11101 11111001001 010011 101 101 00100 01001 01111101010 101001 1111111101 0101110 01010 101110 001 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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