This is an analysis of the poem A Secret Gratitude that begins with:
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She cleaned house, and then lay down long ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab cdefggff cbffahagb bgbicchdbeebhj kcgXeGehlegbg gdj GabXiacmcXXkiahile Xfbnnfcc Xdfng dcg ndiiech Xndmdff Xnhj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,8,9,14,13,3,18,8,5,3,7,7,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11111111 1011 1101111 101101111111001 110001111 1001 110101 1101111101110 111101 11001 10011111111 1111 1110001 11111 110010001010 0111011010 10101 01101111110100110111 111 1110110100101 0111111 10101100101010011 1110 1101010010111011 01110101 0010010 001011 1111 1111 11111 0111111 1011110110 0101 1101 1111101 111111101101101 11111111010010 101100 111 01101011 011010 110100100 1011101 001101 010111 1111101 0100111100011 001000101 11011 111 111000101 11111001011 010101010100100001010 1011 111101 1111110 11101111010101 1101100 1111111 11 110010100101 1001001100101 11 1111101010 1100111010011 1111101101010100 1111 1 1 1111101 10111 11111 11110100 01 11 1 100111 1110110 0111 01 111 1000011 01001 11111101101011 11111100001111 1101101 0110011010 11101111 0101101 011010 1 111011111001 0111011111 1011001001 111000101 0101110 101 1 1111011 1110110110010000110 010110
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 114
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, that, our, we, i, think, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, five, they, of, we, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us, know are repeated).
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