This is an analysis of the poem They Flee From Me that begins with:
They flee from me that sometime did me seek
With naked foot, stalking in my chamber.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcc dedeefX gfgfXhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111011 0101100110 111010111 1111111010 1111101010 0111111111 100100001001 1010010101 1011011010 0101100101 1011001001 1111001111 100010011 1101111111 011111110 1101101100 0001100010 1111010010 1110011000 111111011 111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; her, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, and are repeated.
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