This is an analysis of the poem To Certain that begins with:
You sicken me with lies,
With truthful lies....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXaXbbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 0101 1011010 11111 110101 1101 011100 1101 1101010 01111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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 and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lies is repeated).
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