This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Myself, XXXI that begins with:
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars,
And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXXa dXac dXadXXaaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101010101110101001 101001000110101101001 101100111010 1010110101010010 10100101110110100 1011000110101011 1010100010101000100 1110101111101110101 1110010011110 1110100111010 11101101110100 01010110 0100101111101101 010101010101101 01101111011011 0101010001010110101 010101001001 01011101011 01011001010001 01010111110101 110101010010010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 429
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (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; and, of, in, vain are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, in 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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