This is an analysis of the poem Confounded By Confusion that begins with:

Confounded by confusion that surrounds,
And......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbC AbC DDDEBEe AbC DDDEBEeFG DDFG DEFgee AbC AbCCChAhAbBbBbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,7,3,9,4,6,3,15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101010101 1 101011001001 0101010101 1 101011001001 0101010 11100010 0101010 1110101 10111110 111101 00101 0101010101 1 101011001001 0101010 11100010 0101010 1110101 10111110 111101 010101 111110 0101 0101010 11100010 111110 0101 0101010 1110101 111110 0101 11011101 011101 0101010101 1 101011001001 0101010101 1 101011001001 101011001001 101011001001 1 0101010101 1 0101010101 1 1010110010 1 1010110010 1 001111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 53
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • 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; and, many, disturbed, this, bringing, them, down are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word many is repeated.

    The author used the same words confounded, the 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 down is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words down, strut at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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