This is an analysis of the poem I Feel That I Am Free that begins with:
To me the sky looks bluer,
And the green grass greener still, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdXdefXfgcXc eHihedcdjieiicac eklkXlflgmcmgcmc eHmhcefe mcjXfccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,16,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110 1011101 11101110 1111111 10101011 1010101 10101010 1110111 10100011 1011101 11101010 1001001 10011010 110101 10111010 1111111 1001011 100111 10100010 0111101 10101010 010111 10111111 0010101 10001110 1011001 10111010 1011101 11000110 1010101 10101010 1111111 11101111 010111 1101011 1010111 1111011 0011101 10101010 110011 1011010 0010101 01101011 010111 01101010 1110110 1111010 0011111 1001111 100111 1101010 111111 10111011 1010101 1111010 1000101 11101010 1110111 11111010 0010111 10101010 0010101 1101111 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 401
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 64
- 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; and, in, to, if, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, free, i, if are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word free at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase free connects the lines.
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- summary of I Feel That I Am Free;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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