This is an analysis of the poem Put Out My Eyes that begins with:
Put out my eyes, and I can see you still,
Slam my ears to, and I can hear you yet;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbabXbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111111 1110111111 1011011101 11001110110 1111111101 1110111001 0111110111 1011010101 11111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 381
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; can, and, you, i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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