This is an analysis of the poem My Suicide that begins with:
I've often wondered why
Old chaps who choose to die...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaab cdcdee Xdfdfd gdgdff hdhdcc XhXhii aeaebX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110101 111101 01010 010111 010001 11110 11110101 110111111 11110001 110101010 010100010 111111010 11111110 110111010 11110101 111011010 01111111 110011010 11011111 11010001 10110111 11010100 11011101 01110111 11010101 11010011 11110111 01010101 11011101 10111001111 101010101 110101110 110101111 1111010100 111101010 010100010 11110101 11011001 110000111 11010111 101011101010 0111011100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and 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.
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