This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Myself, V that begins with:
I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you,
And you must not be abased to the other.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX aaX XXaa XbbcXcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,4,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101110101111100101 111101000010 101101101011 11110111111011011001 100111010111 111111100101010 1110110111110110011 1100101101111101111 11111111111111 100111011011101110100001 111101010010011 1111010010010011 111011011101101010110110 110100001001 1100111110001 11100101010 11010011111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 66 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not, i, you, and, your, my, of, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines own is repeated).
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