This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Myself, X that begins with:
Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt,
Wandering amazed at my own lightness and glee,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacXd edaf becgh XhXXiiddaaa dhcfdcdaXiiXdidXeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,5,11,18,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01100111011 100011111011 001101100110101 100101100111 10011010101111 111 01010010011110 1011 1110011110111 100001 010111001101111 11110101111110 01 111001111010 10 11010001000101001 1011011 01010111110110 101110001111 110100110 101100101111001 001001110100111 01101 1111100111011 10100100100111 001 0101110111111 1101010010010 101110010111 1011 111111011110101 1 111011011010101 11 1110111001111 11111 101010010010110 100 101010101010011 10 1101010111010101 11 1111111101101100 10
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 370
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 44
- 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; and, my, his, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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