This is an analysis of the poem Illicit that begins with:
Of what she said to me that night—no matter.
The strange thing came next day. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdeXfgXcecgheXXXfdicc dcccgcdcibgdggjkgde cdcdhdjcgkgfhfXgahgbjjXdadcccag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,19,31,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111110 011111 111101010111 1100100111000 10110011100 101101001110 1001001011 1101010100 11001011101 11110101011 11110111110 11010101010 101111111 01110101010 1111001001 111100111110 111110111011 10010101010 01011110011 11111001110 01111101010 11110001010 110101010011 0111110011 11011101101 01110111110 11010111010 100110001010 1011100111 01001010001010 11010101010 11010110010 10111101010 10010101001 010010101010 10011100101 0100101101010 01010111010 1101011001 1101110101 01010101110 010100100110 11110111010 11011001000 0101011001 10011111010 0101110101 11111101010 1100011101 111101010011 01110111010 1111100101 01000111110 0101011101 11011110100 11000101010 11110101010 1101101101 1111011111 01010001010 10010001010 1111010101 0111010111 01110111111 1110111101 11010101010 10100101110 010011111010 11111100101 1101111011 1111111100 11011100110 11011111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 858
- Average number of words per stanza: 151
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, and, you, it, in, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a, half are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, go are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase evenings connects the lines.
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