This is an analysis of the poem I Wasn't One of the Six Million: And What Is My Life Span? Open Closed Open that begins with:
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My life is the gardener of my body. The brain—a hothouse closed tight...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdbedfXgchhhXijkkhae XldidXgdac Xbcbbl Xlclm XbXcakajlkknXlk XXdbafaXXokddndmclcl XBdgdXocbacmlB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,10,6,5,15,20,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 110010001100101111 00101110011 0110100110001001 010101100010011 1100101001111001 10011101100110 0011111111010 01010010101101 01000111011011000 100011010110 011010011101 111010010100101001 1100010100101 101010110101010 11101011111 101011010010 0111010 1101010100110 100100110 110111101011 01011010101011 111010111 1 1100011011100 110001111000100010110 101001101111 01101101111001 1011111101011010 000111110001010100010 1101100101101 101011 110010 1 110111010111010 011111111 1101011111111 10101010011011010 010101110111 1 1011001111101010 0010101111111110101 011111110101001 101101111 1 1101111100110 11101000110111010 011110001 101100101101 11001001010 1101011101 11101001010 10101010010111010 101111010010 00111110010 11111110110 11110110 01010001111 111010 1 11010011011001 11010010010 111010011010111010 110010111 111101101111010101 0111001011001111 11111111011011 1010010111010100 0011001001011 111011010111010 010100110101 10010110110 1010011100 110101110001 00101010110101 10101101101 1011110010010 0111000101001 1011011 1 10100111101010 1001010110111 11010010110 1011010110110 1010101010101 100101011101 11011101010 11101101111 10111011 101001010001001 10100111011110101 10110101001010 10100111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 635
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 93
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; and, to, never, my, open, we, everything, closed, i, of, for, me, there are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, run, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines preserve, picture are repeated).
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