This is an analysis of the poem I Hear It Was Charged Against Me that begins with:
I HEAR it was charged against me that I sought to destroy
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXXaXXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011011111001 1010 110111011011010 10111010001100 01000 1010010001000101001001 111111 10011110110011011 11010 01100011111110100 010100011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 551
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, in are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines institutions is repeated).
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