This is an analysis of the poem I Sing The Body Electric that begins with:
I SING the Body electric;
The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcd decfdd ghX hijihbkdlmf ccecemkXemnlfifokainekiihfXefXh eje kfceXmbbdXlipfbXjn pm ggegokp kcXd bhkmhclfiddfnnjXckpp ekfk chd mijeX mfop imbdebdqXill ffkgeqk kk dXqhfkim ki mhkhf Xe kjb koeh fffeXke peifi neie kece Xkmpqdr ffdi doe kXcdfeeeele
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,3,11,31,3,18,2,7,4,20,4,3,5,4,12,7,2,8,2,5,2,3,4,7,5,4,4,7,4,3,17,38,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010010 010011110111100 101111111000100 11000110100100 1 101011101111001 01 101110010111111100 1 1001011111101 1001001011001 0100100111010101001 101 10010011100110011 0010001101 100100011101110001 0000111100010000010 0111 0000101000101001 1111111 011101001111010 110 0111011110110011 1100101101001110 1 0111001010110100 1011111110010 1101110 0101000101111110 0101111001111 1000110010010 01010110010011010 00101 1101100110100 01010010111011010 1011110 01110010101000101 11 011010101101001 10101 0100100101011110 010101110101111 101 011111001011010 010110101011010110 01 0101001101010100 10111010111 01010010011011 10001101001001 0100011010101101 110101 11111101111011010 100101 100101001001010 010111011 110101010010011 10000100110000100 1 0110100101010010 010010110110011 110010101000110 10110010 1110111010111110 1111111101001010 101101110 1101011111111 1011110101110100 11 111010011110101 11001 11010101101101011 1011010011011011 10100100111111 1110011110110111 1111110110011000 01 1111110001111011 1001111111110 11011000111001 010100001110001 000101100100101010 01 0101011101111110110 1010110101001 11111010111001001 10100101011101101 010011110001100 111 11101111011 000111 00110100000101 0010110100010 111101101011101010 110111110 110101010011010 1011011110100101 1011101 11000100011100001 1101000 11011011001011 011101 111011111011110 1010010 1001010111010100100 1111010011 111011010110000 101 1010000101101 100100101111 000100100101010010 1010 000101000101111 01101 010110110010001100 10001 1101001011101001 01101110011001000 11100110 101110110110110 1000110111111111 101 11111010010 1111011010000101 10 10111110100101111 010110111110001 11011001010110 01001101001 10111110110100111 0101010110111010 1101111011 0111010101100001 1001111011111010 010011 1100011100110111 1011101 1111110011 0110010101010010 1101000010 000100100111001101 01 10111101111101111 111 11010100010 100010 010100010010110010 111111011101101 11001 110111010001111111 1001 11110101010000111 0101010110111010 1 1110111110 0110110 1101010101111010 10011010 110010010110010110 1001101010000011 10011 100010101011001 0010110011 001010010010 010111111111100 1011 110111110 100101111010 101101011111110 01111 1100111 01111 0111 011101 1111011110010 1010101 111111101111010 101101 00110110001001110 10011 01010100111010 0110010101010001 010 111111100110011 10100 11111110100111 110100 01010110 110110011001010010 100100011110100 10 1110101000101 11101010001 11010110 1100110110100111 0101 1111111010010101 101111001 010101001010010 1010110010010011010 101110011110100100 1011001 11101101001110101 101001110 111101011100101 11101111001010101110 101001011 10101011011100100 1111101 1010101111101101 11110 1101111010 101111010 11111110001 1110100011110101 10001 111110011101 10 11000110010 1101011100111 1101011001101010 11001 101111110101110 111 111111101110 101101101 111101001111 1 1101110011 11101110110111 11 110111000101 110111101101 10101111101 1101101000100100111 1010101101111 01100101010111 01001010111 10011101101000100 1011110010101110 10 0101101111010 1111010110 0110010101001001 111010111010 1101100100101101 100 001001000100110101 010111101 010010011110001010 10010 0100100111000111 010001110011110 0101 0111001110110110 10001 0100101001 1111110111000101010 01 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 33
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 431
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 268
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- 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; them, i, and, who, soul, of, balks, account, his, in, it, with, he, him, they, loved, would, you, to, or, love, she, as, just, procession, for, blood, there, your, likes, eye, arm, finger, breast, leg, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, they, to, she, as, in, have, your are repeated.
The author used the same words the, this at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them, soul, the, enough, day, here, sacred, procession, blood are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word soul at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase finger connects the lines.
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- summary of I Sing The Body Electric;
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