This is an analysis of the poem What Think You I Take My Pen In Hand? that begins with:
WHAT think you I take my pen in hand to record?
The battle-ship, perfect-model'd, majestic, that I saw pass the... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbccXadbXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111101001 0101011001011110 10011011 010001110100011 1011 10101011001101011 1 110101101110110100 100110010011 01001110101110001 1 10100110101001001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 623
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; one, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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