This is an analysis of the poem Spontaneous Me that begins with:

SPONTANEOUS me, Nature,
The loving day, the mounting sun, the friend I am happy with,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXcdefagfhiXjffXkllXXekgccfdaXXemccbndcjicfdieXefogfkfncdgmkfefelXfhgoeXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 75,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0100110 010101010111100 01011101010110 01110001000101 0110100101101101 1111 0110000110011010 10010100100101 1001010010010110 0101110010011100 011011110101010 0100010000110111 010101101111110111 1101 11110111001011111 1101010010 1111110110110 10101 11101101101011 011011101001 1011110101101 01001101000101101000 1010001 11001110011 0101111011011111 0111010101001001 11000011011001 1110101 0101101010 11011101010111101 110101101010010 01010010011111 11 0110011101101011 1110 01110010111011 10001 0111111010110 0101011101111010110 1 010010100010110100 1010100111 0100100110110010010 01001101010011 101 0101001011 010101101110 001010001101011 0100111010010101 011110110101101 10110 01111111011100 0111101 010100101110110 1 0110111100010010 01111010110 0101101100111110110 01000011111001001 01010100100100 01110111101001101 111 010001001100 010010011111111010 11110010111101 010 011000010001011000 01001 010101011111001110 01111111010111 101110110111111 1 010010110 1011110011 0110111010001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4320
  • Average number of words per stanza: 669
  • Amount of lines: 75
  • Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, poems, love, body, flushes, young, that, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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

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