This is an analysis of the poem O Me! O Life! that begins with:
O ME! O life!... of the questions of these recurring;
Of the endless trains of the faithless--of cities fill'd with the... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXacbbbcXX X XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,1,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001001010 001010010010100 10 011010100111111011 11110 011101010010100 101001 00101010010110111 011 001011000010011 001 010111101010011111 1 10 1111110110100 1010011111001001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; of, me, o, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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