This is an analysis of the poem Sit Smiling that begins with:
I boasted among men that I had known you.
They see your pictures in all works of mine. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXaB XXXXXaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001111111 1111001101 11111101 1111010011011101 1111110101 111110 11110100101 010101011 11111111110 11110100 11111111 1111010101 111110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word smiling at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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