This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Myself, XLI that begins with:
I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on their backs,
And for strong upright men I bring yet more needed help.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabc dbefegXXbbdacXfbfbfaXXfXgbaXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,29,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101101111111 1110111111101 1111100101 101100100100 001001111011011 1010101011 110101011010 10110010100010 1000101011101011 101010010101010 01010110100110101010101 010101001100110010110 10011111111011 01010011001011 111111001111011111101 0100110100111001101001011111011 0100111100101001 101011110011110010110 1010010101001000101 101101011111001101010 10101010111101110110100011 1011011010010 11011011011111111011001 101001001101010101100101 110110100010110100111111 0111001101011101 10110101001101101010111111011100 11100101001101111100111 011011010101 11111000111 01010001011110110010001 011010111111110101101010 11110100100010 1011111001110011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1212
- Average number of words per stanza: 221
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 70 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; heard, i, and, for, they, as, of, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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