This is an analysis of the poem Self Reliance that begins with:
HENCEFORTH, please God, forever I forego
The yoke of men's opinions. I will be... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbccXbXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 0101010100 1101011101 1110010011 11010000101 1010101 0101011101 0101100001 1011011101 1101010101 1101011110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 414
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the are repeated.
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- summary of Self Reliance;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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