This is an analysis of the poem To You that begins with:
Whoever you are, I fear you are walking the walks of
dreams,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbbdefgg dhcid hdjd dddkddldik ilamfmmi dnkhXnn dodXcekejj jdjddfd odnd jdceachfn gXmkjXme
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,5,4,10,8,7,10,7,4,9,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011111110010 1 1110101001010101 111 101110111110 10100111010101 11111001011 111100110101 11101101010 1010010 010111111101111 0110 1100111011 111101011111110 11 1110101011 111111101101 1111101111110 1011 101111110101 111011111011 11110011111100 10 1111101011011 101001 111010011101110 1001001001 110111101011101010 1011101000010 1011011011010 1001 001001010100100 1101 11110011111010 1001101 011001010011100 1100010010 1111110110011 1111111111001 10111 1111001111001 1111010100100 111010111010 10010101 0100111 101010101111 10111111011 1001010010010 10001010110101 01011101101 011001010010100 111011111 010100101011001 1011111101 1010100111010110 01 1011011001110110 001 111100010110001 110101101110101 11 11111100101011101 10001 110100100111101 1101001001 010111111110 1100111110101 101111010001011 0110100011 11010011001010 01010101111110101 10100 1011001111010100 1101010 01010110111010 0100 111111111010101 1101110001 1111100011010 10010 110100101000101 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 411
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i, should, have, of, from, in, no, for, these, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, none, no, these are repeated.
The author used the same words whoever, o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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