This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Myself, XXXIV that begins with:
Now I tell what I knew in Texas in my early youth,
(I tell not the fall of Alamo,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaaab XXbc dXedX fe XefXcXXXXXdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,2,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101001101 111010100 110101010100 0101101111100 101001001101101111 010111001010110110 11011000101001111010111001 1101101110101 11011100001010011011111111110001 10010001010 10011011011 110010010110100 1010100101010 101011010001 01011101011011100011001010 010101101111011 10100101 1101110111111 011111001011010111010 01110100101101 01 1110100101 101000101110001010 011101011001011110011 010111100011 101001010100010 10010010001101111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (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; tell, i, alamo, their, of, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines alamo is repeated).
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