This is an analysis of the poem What The Poet Was Telling Himself In 1848 that begins with:
You mustn't seek out power, mustn't grab the helm
Your work lies elsewhere, spirit of another realm,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXXaabbddXeeeffeeaaggcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111010101 111111000101 010001010101 100101011101 011101111111 10111010101 110001011100 10011100110 110101111101 101111100101 101001111101 101101111011 100110101011 111111011101 010101101101 0110101110111 101101101010 1001010100010 1101110010001 0101010011001 0101011110110 1110101010010 1010010100010 101110111110 010101010101 000111101101 010101010010 110001100110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 691
- Average number of words per stanza: 124
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; to, your, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and are repeated.
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