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

The negro holds firmly the reins of his four horses, the block swags underneath on its tied-over chain,
The negro that drives the long dray of the... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabbc XX Xdd cX eb cfeaff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,3,2,2,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101100100110011101101101 01011011001110111111111011 01101001011111010011 0101101011001001010010 01110101111110100101011 101010010111111111 1100110 010100010101010111101 0100111010101011010 01010111101 1011001111100101101101011 010111101111011 111011111111011110 110101101001 101011100 1010110110011 101011100101010100 111101001001101101 10100110100101110101 10100111100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 71 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 14
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and, on, of, i, to, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, his, i, and are repeated.

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

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