This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Myself, XXII that begins with:
You sea! I resign myself to you also—I guess what you mean,
I behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXe bfbcb ab gX X fhha gd fah Xe XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,2,2,1,4,2,3,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111011011111 10100111001010 101101011011001 11101010101101101001 10111101001 110100111011 10111 110110101 100101101000111101 10110010101101 111000111101110110 100011110110001101010 100010111101101 111010100 111110100111011010 111010010101110100010010010 110001101011 10011101010011110100 110111011001 1100101111 0111100100010100 0110010111001101101 11110101001001010 110110111010 1110001111101 00111011001100 101101011 1011001101101011010 010011111111001111101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (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, you, of, me, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, sea, did 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.
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