This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Myself, XIX that begins with:
This is the meal equally set, this the meat for natural hunger,
It is for the wicked just the same as the righteous, I make appoint- ments with... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabbX XXcXcd Xda cX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00011001001110010 00101010110101101101 101101010101101 0110101101010 01011001001000010 1101100010101 00010010100111001 001011010010010 0011111010111 00101011101101 11111110010 111101110110101010011 111011010 1011010101010100101 11010111 0101110100 1111101011011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, this, and, have, astonish, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, this are repeated.
The author used the same word this 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 invited is repeated).
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