This is an analysis of the poem Why This Volume Is So Thin that begins with:
In youth I dreamed, as other youths have dreamt,
Of love, and thrummed an amateur guitar ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdaadddefefggXaeaXXahahdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111110111 01110110101 0100110101 0101000101 1101010101 1111001111 1100110101 10101000101 01010110101 1101011101 0101111101 1101110111 1111110100 1111111111 0111011001 1101110001 11010101001 1111010101 001111100 100011111001 0111001111 0111000101 1101010101 1111011101 1110011101 1111100101 1110110111 1110010101 1101111101 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1287
- Average number of words per stanza: 240
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, ever are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, for, o are repeated.
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