This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Myself, XX that begins with:
Who goes there? hankering, gross, mystical, nude;
How is it I extract strength from the beef I eat?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab c dX XX ab X ef eg acf Xeb bafX hbb hfbXbdg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,2,2,2,1,2,2,3,3,4,3,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110011001 100111100111 1001101111111 11111111010011 1001110001 111101100110 1111010111011 100110101011001100100101 11111111111 1111111101101000 101101010100110010110101 111101110111 011011111111101011 10011110111100 11111011 0100101000101010001 111001111110101 111110 110100110011010010 111111101101001111 111110 1111011001000110101 111010101100101 110101110101011111101 1011111001 01100010011110 101110011110 110011110100111011 11011011011011011100 111001011010100111 11101001100010 1111111010 111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, what, and, of, know, aware, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is 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 content is repeated).
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- Analysis of Song Of Myself, XIII
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- Analysis of Song Of Myself, XVI
