This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Myself, XLVIII that begins with:
I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabcaXda bbc XX XXdXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,3,2,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010111010 11111010011101 11011010011110 101010110110010011001001 111110000111001001 101011110100101010011 11011101010111000101010 1101101110101101101 111010111011111101010101010 11101101100011 111110001111100011 10101111111110111011 111011010010110111001 11110111101100111 111101110101 1110011100010111101 00100111011110111001 11100110011100101111 11101111111100011 1001001110110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 350
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 69 (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; than, not, and, or, of, about, i, curious, say, god, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines god is repeated).
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