This is an analysis of the poem There Is A Thief In The Folds Of My Arms that begins with:
There is a thief in the folds of my arms.
Whom shall I tell?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AB AcccB XXaaB XdedB cdXdB dXedB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1001001011 1111 1001001011 110101101 1101001001 101100111 1111 010101010 1011101 100111 11110011 1111 1011100101 01100101 1001101011 111101101 1111 11100011 010101001 01110011001 01110111 1111 110110111 101111100 101001011 110101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sky is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word tell at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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