This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Myself, XXIII that begins with:
Endless unfolding of words of ages!
And mine a word of the modern, the word En-Masse.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab bX cc XX dXXad aeeadXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,5,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001010 110100100111 010011101 1110000010101101110100 001001100111011 1101001001011 1010100111100 01001011110 0111001011011010 11001010110011 00010100001001010001100 11001011100011 0000100010010100010010 10001011011 1111011111110 111010011000110 100100100111 11001010101101011010 1110101011011011101010 110100111010010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, word, and, it, alone, this 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 all, dwelling are repeated).
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