This is an analysis of the poem He Never Expected Much that begins with:
Well, World, you have kept faith with me,
Kept faith with me; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXaaaX bbbbccab XXXdeeed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 1101 010111100 111110 11011101 01011101 10110101 111101 11111111 1111 010100111 011101 1001111000 10010100 11110101 111101 101110100 1100 110101110 110111 11011101 11111101 11111111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i, said are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word many is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, said, overmuch are repeated).
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