This is an analysis of the poem Values that begins with:
Did you deceive me? Did I trust
A heart of fire to a heart of dust?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eecc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01011011 0101000101 110110111 11110100101 110101110 1111011010 100111001 111010101 1010101111 010110101 10110101111 1110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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, and are repeated.
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