This is an analysis of the poem Believing They Are Best Kept Unknown that begins with:
So many sighing.
And some are hiding......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAAB AAAb AAAb AAAB AAABBCCCC AAABBCCCC BCCCCXBc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,9,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010 11110 10100010 01001 11010 11110 10100010 01001 11010 11110 10100010 01001 11010 11110 10100010 1001 11010 11110 10100010 1001 01001 101 101 101 101 11010 11110 10100010 01001 01001 101 101 101 101 010111 101 101 101 101 1 010111 101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 18 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; kept, unknown are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word kept is repeated.
The author used the same word so 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 unknown is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words detest, unknown at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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