This is an analysis of the poem Tender Confessions that begins with:
When I think of how life used to be,
how I always hid in the shadows, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcacdbXXaXaXXaaXdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011100 111110011 100011010 11110111101 1111111 1101011 111110001 11011111 1110110101 111011101 11110101 110111101 101110011 11110101 100111 1101011 111101001 1010111011 0010011 111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 656
- Average number of words per stanza: 137
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, for are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines love is repeated).
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