This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Myself, XXX that begins with:

All truths wait in all things,
They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXX bX cc abaXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,2,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 111011 110101101001010 11110010100010 01010001101110 10111101 101101001 010011100011 1011010100111001 1011110101 001101011011 10101011011011 1010010001001110 101011010010111110 111011001011001001100 1011111011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; and, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, only, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines so is repeated).

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