This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Myself, I that begins with:
I Celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaX bc bXdaeX cXedX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,6,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111111 111011101 11001001001100101 1110111 1111111010010101 11100100111001 01 1101011010011 11001 11101001001101 1001111 1110010 010101011111110 010 110101110101110010 1001100100100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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, of, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Song Of Myself, I;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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