This is an analysis of the poem Forbidden Speech that begins with:
The passion you forbade my lips to utter
Will not be silenced. You must hear it in... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbX XcXcdX deXedX bfbfXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111010 0101011100 01010111110 1101010111 11111000010 10111101110 11010111000 0101010101 10010111110 0110010111 101100101010 11111101100 10110101110 01001010101 11111100100 0101011101 11010111110 11111001010 11111111010 1011010111 11110101110 0101010101 11111111100 01010101100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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