This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Orphan that begins with:
I am no one and never will be anyone,
for I am far too small to claim to be;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaX ba aXcX dXXd XXX b Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,4,4,3,1,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111000100 1111110100 11010 10110 11011 110011011 1111000101 111111011111 10110011 110111 11110 100110100 1001101 11010101 1110101 11111101 11110111 0101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 78
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; me, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is 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 me is repeated).
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