This is an analysis of the poem Samurai Song that begins with:
When I had no roof I made
Audacity my roof. When I had...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa aba aac aXX adc ede baX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 010011111 110111 11111110 1111111 11111110 11111011 1110111 11010110 1111111 10111111 100101110 11111011 1111011 11110110 1111110 011111 10100110 10110010 01100111 11011011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 85
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 21
- 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; i, when, had, no, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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