This is an analysis of the poem An Honesty Is Felt And Seen that begins with:
You think a truth revealed,
Can be from some withheld....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAAA BbAA XXAAAA C AAAA BbAAAAAA C AA C AAAAAAXbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,1,4,8,1,2,1,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 100101 110101 100101 1101011101101 1 110101 100101 10110101101 0 110101 100101 110101 100101 1110111000111 110101 100101 110101 100101 1101011101101 1 110101 100101 110101 100101 110101 100101 1110111000111 110101 100101 1110111000111 110101 100101 110101 100101 110101 100101 11101 11000111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; you is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word withheld at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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