This is an analysis of the poem We May Roam Through This World that begins with:
We may roam through this world, like a child at a feast,
Who but sips of a sweet, and then flies to the rest; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbcDEDe ababfcfcDEDE bgbgghghDEDE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101101101 111001111001 111001011001 111011101001 101111111 1010111001 110111111 1100111111 101001011001 101101011011 101001011011 101001101011 01001001001 101001001011 11101001011 101011001101 111011101 110100101 110111001 111110101 101001011001 101101011011 101001011011 101001101011 01101001011 101001101001 11011001011 111001111001 1010010101 1010010101 110011101 0111111101 101001011001 101101011011 101001011011 101001101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 580
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, that, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word which is repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word home at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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