This is an analysis of the poem I Have Lived With Shades that begins with:
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I have lived with Shades so long,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbadda X effeXggX X accXXXhX X dggdceeX a ihhihaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1110111 111100 110111 1011 0111 0101 0111 1 111101 111111 000011 111101 1101 0101 1111 0110 1 10101101 1110111 110101 1101110 10111 11110 11101 110000 1 111111 111111 010001 110100 0001 1101 1111 01010 1 100111011 110111 111001 010101 1111 0110 0101 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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