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
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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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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