This is an analysis of the poem Excerpts From The Diary Of Damocles that begins with:
I don't dare speak too loudly,
some timbres could be fatal--...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cd eX fg hX hg b fi jX kc hk lg cc mf jn ha Xi cc X jc ff fb Xl fk g kg Xg og fe Xb b hm gX nd Xn a hj hj kk kg gj eX hn an noXoo
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1111110 1101010 110111 1111111 0111011 110001000 0101010 001001 101101 1011100 11001111 1001110 11010110 1010010 100110 10001101 11111001 01001001000 01010010100 1011010 10011010 01010001 101110 01111100 10110010 1010100 01101010 111101001 0101001 10001001 101110100 010001010 01010010 111101 00100100 101001110 101001 01010101 1110111 0101011 110101 01110101 01011111 110011 10110010 100101010 001011 1000101 0100011 10101010 1011011 1100001 0110110 1111 1110111 00100000101 011101 011111111 010001001 010000110 011101 01011010 10011010 11110100 011010 1010101 10100100 1110101 101111 101111 011111 010111 1110111 010010 01101001 0101011 11011111 01000101 1101100 010101 11001111 0100100 101111001 1000111 01010110 1111011 0101011
- Amount of stanzas: 51
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 49
- Average number of words per stanza: 9
- Amount of lines: 92
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my, his are repeated.
The author used the same word his at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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