This is an analysis of the poem We! that begins with:
Last night a lizard sprang up from nowhere and landed upon me. It squirmed along my arm and then climbed upon my shoulder before inching toward my...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X X X X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: cinquain
- Metre: 1101011011110011010011111101110011001111100100001010111001010110101101010010101010110101011011010010111 01010110011110111001111010101000101010100101011100111100111011001100110110110101100011100110010100 11000110101111110110111110011101111010111111010011000111111101111101010111010101110011001100 10100111110111101111110111010111000111101011010111001101101110101010011111111101110111 0100111100100100110001001010100110111110101010110111001101101001110100010110110111000100110011010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 366
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 5
- Average number of symbols per line: 367 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 66
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, of, to, and, have, upon, i, for, their, two, one, etc, it, bed, from, with, lizard are repeated.
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