This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Myself, III that begins with:

I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcccc dbbeXfgc hghb ih jj dkf ljki Xabelkgbigb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,4,2,2,3,4,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11110100100100 010101 1111100010101 11101010101101 11011111101 101001010101101 110110111101 11111 110101001 10010100100111101 01111 1101001001101011010 1 001010101111001100 1 1101101100111 1001001 11010100100100 110100111 111011111101101 11 1111100101101 1101011011001 1001101000011101 10001101101000111 01111011110111 100100101101011010110 11 11110100011011110 1010101 1110111111 1010110110111110 11011010010101 101101001101001 0110 110111000110101111 1 111010101101 11110111001 01001001101001001110 01
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; urge, there, and, any, now, than, more, always, of, with are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines end, now are repeated).

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