This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Myself, XVI that begins with:
I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXXXbXXXXacXabXc XXdXddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110111001011101 01001010100010 0101110100111101 100110111001101 100100101001001101001 0100110100010101111001101011 01011111011110 1001111010111 01100100100110111100010100110 0101011110110101011 1111001111001101001100 1100101110001111 1110100110010110101 1101010110111001111010 1101011011011111100111 010001001000100 0100101100010010 010011111010011010 010010101001010 10010110100101 101101101110100 1011110101 1111111011 0110111011 01111101111011011 01000001101000001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 582
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 66 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, of, joints, and, or, in, comrade are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, at, comrade, the are repeated.
The author used the same word i 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 place is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word place at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Song Of Myself, XVI;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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