This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Myself, IV that begins with:
Trippers and askers surround me,
People I meet, the effect upon me of my early life or the ward and city I live in, or the nation,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXXXaX XXcccXbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110011 1011001011011011011101101010 01010100010010010111 1101010011001 01110010001111011 01001011101111101111010101011000 10010010001010010101001 1101111110101 11110111 0100101101111 10101010000101010 11001111111100101 1001111001011 1011001110110010 101101111110110101010 11110110011011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 352
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, or, of, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Song Of Myself, IV;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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