This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Myself, VI that begins with:
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab c dXba c Xaef a gcfgg aca aX cg cX XXed aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,4,1,4,1,5,3,2,2,2,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011100110001011 1111001111110010111 110100101101010101110 111000100001 01011100010001 1001011000010111 1101111 11101001010011001010 1110001011010 10110010111101 1001111011 1010100111001101001 110101010011101 1000111101 0101010001011 0100111011110 0101101101011101101101 11110101 0101010000110110 10101001011 101010011101 11011011101001 1101111100101110 11110101010111110 101011111010111011011 1111101001111 111111010010111 11011111 01011101011 1010110110111111010010 11010101 111011010010 101010001101011100
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, i, of, and, from, old are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, it, and are repeated.
The author used the same word or at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines laps is repeated).
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- summary of Song Of Myself, VI;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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