This is an analysis of the poem I Cannot Forget With What Fervid Devotion that begins with:
I cannot forget with what fervid devotion
I worshipped the vision of verse and of fame.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc dada cdcd dede aaaa afaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010110010 11001001101 111010011110 011001011101 110110011010 101101011001 1111111101110 110101001001 1011011110110 001001011001 1011011110010 11001111101 111011010110010 001001011101 1111110110010 11011011011 110110011110 11011101001 0011010010010 11001001111 0011011010010 01101101001 1010011010010 11111111001 111011110010 11011001101 101011010010 01011001000
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, my, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, in are repeated.
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