This is an analysis of the poem What Best I See In Thee that begins with:
WHAT best I see in thee,
Is not that where thou mov'st down history's great highways,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXcXcbaXXcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 111101 0111111100111 101001111110010 111111001100101 110111010101000101 01 11010101011101 110101011101 1101000110010101 010101010111010100 1 1000011001010101 11011 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 749
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- 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; with is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
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- history of its creation;
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