This is an analysis of the poem Clarification To My Poetry-Readers that begins with:

And of me say the fools:
I entered the lodges of women ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXbcdadaXXddd Aeafagbghaihjfbgb ciieakdlbdaajdklelXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,17,20,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101 110010010 1101 1111110 010101001010 110001 11010 110 010 1101 1101 101111 111 101101 01100 110000101 11 10 010100001 0101100 01011 1011 101 10110 0 111101 11 00010101011 110111 0100100101 10001110 1110 1100100 1100 1010110010 1110101 0011 11 111111 01 1001011 01110 10101 0111 101001 10110101 01010 11011101 10 101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, the are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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