This is an analysis of the poem Ii: And As I Mused On All We Call Our Own that begins with:
And as I mused on all we call our own,
And (in the words their passionate hope had taught... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabXacddddc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111111111 10011100111 0100111111 11110111001 1101100001 1011110101 11011110110 0100111101 11110111010 110101011001 1111010111 01011011011 1101000101 1110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 646
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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