This is an analysis of the poem I Need Not Go that begins with:
I need not go
Through sleet and snow ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabcccX XddeXXXe bbbfgggfXbbbabbba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 1111 0111 1111 10111 11101 11101 0100 11100 0111 1111 1111 0101 1101 0111 11101 1011 1111 1101 0101 11010 01010 01110 1011 11111 11011 11111 1111 11111 11011 10111 11001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (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; me is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, new are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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