This is an analysis of the poem To Lou Andreas-Salome that begins with:
I held myself too open, I forgot
that outside not just things exist and animals...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdecfgbca heXgfXcha ffai XgXjjiida Xi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,9,4,9,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110101 111111011100 101100111 101110011010 1101010111 011001001 10011101010100 11011101 1111011101011 1111101011 001110110100 001101 111010001101 1111000101 101010100101 10111101111 11011110001 1110111111101 11101110110 010001010001 111110111011 10010110110 1101001010 1110100101 010101000010 111111111 11010111011 110111001 11011011101 010111111 100101011110 00101111111 11111100111 1011110101 0101001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word into is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word heart at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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