This is an analysis of the poem Confessional that begins with:
Now that I kneel at the throne, O Queen,
Pity and pardon me.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbacXc XbXbaded bfXfXede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110111 101101 111100101 100111 11011101 100101 10100100101 111101 11100101 111001 100101111 00111001 011101001 101101 10100110101 111001 11010101 111101 111010110 100101 10111100 100101 10100100101 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Confessional;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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