This is an analysis of the poem When I Think About Myself that begins with:
When I think about myself,
I almost laugh myself to death, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbcbbA dXbdbbA ddecdeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 11111101 11101111 0111 0111 11111111 1110111 1000111 01111111 111101101 1101 1101 11011101 1110111 11111111 11111101 011111110 1101 1101 110111010 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, too are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word myself at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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