This is an analysis of the poem Myself And Mine that begins with:
MYSELF and mine gymnastic ever,
To stand the cold or heat--to take good aim with a gun--to sail a... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXd aXc XXef Xgchgi XjXj gge gci Xgi ggXaX hXdjdd Xfbag Xg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,4,6,4,3,3,3,5,6,5,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101010 0101110101001010 1010100010110 011001100111011010 1011101000101111 1110100 101101000100110010 1101001110101110 1010100 10100110111010 01110111010101 10 1111111 1101001101101001 1101100111111111010 110 11110011010010111 1110 11111101111100100 111 0110111101111011 1 11111011010100 10100 01001111111010101 1101010011010100 11001100111011110 01000 11101101 110111011110010 11101101010 11001010101010101 1100010 111111111010 1011101111111110 01011000 110010010010111 100110011111 11110100111101111 100111 111101101110101 1110111111111 101101 11110111010101 1111011100110100 1010 100100100100110100 101011010010001101 101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 49
- 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; to, and, for, let, you, i, as, give, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words let, i are repeated.
The author used the same word not at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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