This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Myself, XV that begins with:
The pure contralto sings in the organ loft,
The carpenter dresses his plank, the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdebfghchaffXhchehdfbiifeehjfejjcefgadhXbkeejfXbejejhhekXXcahclccl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 69,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01100100101 01001001010010010010101 010101010110111010 010100111110011 011100111101110 0110111011010 0101010111010 01010110100010011 0101101111101111110111 010101011000100011 10101101110001001011 01100111111101 11010011101100111 011111001010 10011100001 01010110101010110111 00101101001010010110111 0110100110111111111 01111011001001 010101011111111101111 10011010100101001 0101011001001110 1010110010101010100010 0101001101001111101010110 01101001011011001001 010111101111011 011001011010010011111 0101101010101000111111 101111011010110110100 0110110110101010100111111101 0111001001101001011011 011101100100110010011 0101110110100010 111010011011001000111 0011110110110110101101001 001011101110010101 0100101001001010 00100110101010101110 01010011100111 010100110101001101011 011000110011001110 01001001010111101 01011001010110101101 01110101011110110 10001111111111 01011001001000101011010 10010111010110011 0100111010100100001 00100100110011010 101010110111101010011 0111100101011001010110110 01011100011100100 100101100101001010 00010101101010111 1001011001010101101011001 110101101011101001010 0111101001011001 10011011101011011 110110100011011 111010111100101 101001111010011000 1011110011111111010 01010010111011010111 010110101 0101111011111 01101101101101101 11110011111000 11100000111111 1011111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 5254
- Average number of words per stanza: 954
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 75 (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; and, at, he, on, his, her, through, or, in, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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