This is an analysis of the poem Behold! I Am Not One That Goes To Lectures… that begins with:
Behold! I am not one that goes to Lectures or the pow-wow of
Professors.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdeffXbggehiXiXjhddXbbjbhccXaXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 35,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111111101010110 010 01010110100010111000 111000111110110010 11011 111011111111111 11 1001001110110 111110010 11001110101010 11011101100100 101 101010 1100111001011 111011101010110 100010111 110101111010100 110100100010011 11100010001001010 1110100001 1101111010010110 10011110100101 1100100101011101101 1111 11110 1111110110100111 100100101010111 0100011010101010 10001010100010 1001 110111111101001 1110111100110 101010101010 10101010 011000100101001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1621
- Average number of words per stanza: 302
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, his, that, me, see, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, that are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rhyme is repeated).
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