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

Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore,
Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXb XX Xc Xb cb dae ee XbdXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,2,2,2,3,2,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111101 1011111110 10100100111110 11011101001 111011011010010 1001111101 1010000010000 11110101111 11001011111011 1011001011010110 0101101110110 010011100101011 1 101110110 101110110110 0010100011011 011111111101001 1111110100 1111111010010110 1 111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; twenty, eight, of, their are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words twenty, she, the, they are repeated.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.

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