This is an analysis of the poem Brilliance that begins with:
Brilliance.
Some are told they have this, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aABCDAX aABCDAX XBb Xbabb cBX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,3,5,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 111110 10101110100 11010011 011001110001 0100110 0111100 10 111110 10101110100 11010011 011001110001 0100110 0111100 1 111011111101 11111101101 011111101010 1011 1101100100 011101111110111 1011 1 111011111101 111111011011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; not is repeated.
The author used the same word brilliance at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word unshared at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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