This is an analysis of the poem I Have A Hundred Lives that begins with:
I have a hundred lives before me yet
To grasp thee in, O Spirit ethereal,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc dede ff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101010111 01101100100 011001100 0111010101 11111100101 1001010111 10010110111 1101010101 1111011100 11011011101 1011010101 1011111111 0111111101 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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