This is an analysis of the poem Concealment that begins with:
No; to what purpose should I speak?
No, wretched heart! swell till you break.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdddee eeffggeeehh cchhiieeeiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10110111 11011111 11011011 1011110111 10011101 11011001 1111010111 11000101 11110001 11010101 1011001100 11011111 101010101 00110101 1101010100 010010101 01011101 1101010110 11010011 110010011 101100101 0110110101 11010111 01000001 110100101 0101010111 10110011 11111011 1101110101 11011101 11010101 111100001 111101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 443
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, that, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
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- summary of Concealment;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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