This is an analysis of the poem An Appetite To Fight that begins with:
Fighting to keep denied an insight,
From reaching daylight......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABA AAA CACDCCCAD AABA CDCCCAD CAED CAED CDED AAAA dAFA DAFA DAFA DAFAFAFAFFX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,9,4,7,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101111 01011 010101010 111001 01010101111 0101 110101 11 0010011 11 00111010 011 111101 010101 11101001 101001 100101111 01011 010101010 111001 11 00111010 011 111101 010101 11101001 101001 11 0010011 01101110 1100101 11 0010011 01101110 1100101 11 00111010 01101110 1100101 01010101111 0101 110101 111001 11010 10001 11111 10001 11010 10001 11111 10001 11010 10001 11111 10001 11010 10001 11111 10001 1111 10001 11111 10001 11111 1111 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word pass is repeated.
The author used the same words all, pass at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines fists is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words minds, hit at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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