This is an analysis of the poem Of My Poems that begins with:
There is no moral to my song,
I praise no right, I blame no wrong:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbbbXXccbbddeecc ccffgghhiiccjj kkllddccllXfhhcjjXkkaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,14,22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110011 11111111 11011111 11011110 11010101 11011011 11110111 11000101 11110111 11010110 11110101 111101110 11011101 10010101 00110111 01011011 11001101 11111101 11110101 01111111 11010111 01010101 01010110 11110111 11110101 11010101 01011101 10010111 101100111 11010111 01110101 01010001 11011101 11010101 11100101 01110001 11011101 11111111 11010111 11110101 11010101 10110101 11010101 10011101 01110101 00110101 11011100 01101101 01011101 11110101 11010011 10111111 01000111 11110111 11010011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 457
- Average number of words per stanza: 93
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, no, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, who, that are repeated.
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