This is an analysis of the poem Assurances that begins with:
I NEED no assurances--I am a man who is preoccupied, of his own Soul;
I do not doubt that from under the feet, and beside the hands and... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdebffgehidicfgXgcgidXXdha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010011011001010011 1111101001101011 1111000111010111 10001110010 1111101001100011100 10010001 11111110011010101100 0111011100 111110110100111 1110111011111 1010000111111111 111111010011111100 0 11110100110100101001 1010011011101011 1010010101010101 1111101000110111 01011101011010 10101010101 0111111010111001 0110110101 1111111111010100 01101111010101 11101010010011 11111110110010101110 10010100100001 1111101111111111 0110010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1754
- Average number of words per stanza: 302
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of, and, limitless, on, that, another, for, provided, deaths are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines limitless is repeated).
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