This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Myself, XXXII that begins with:
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd,
I stand and look at them long and long.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cdadeX fc dfXXfXd ddabfcXcfe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,6,2,7,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111110100111101101 111110111 111111011010 11110100111111 11111101011001 1100101110010001000101 1110010100111100001 1100100101010011 11110100111010 1111001110101001010 110111110 0111111011100010 1110101111010 100110111100100 1001100010101010 1101001010011000 101111111110111001 00101000101101001010 11001010101 11011011001 110100100110110010 01001111011 01111001011101101 11110011101110 111111011111100 1011111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (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, i, they, not, one, to, them are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, they, not, his are repeated.
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