This is an analysis of the poem Denials Kept that begins with:
Denials kept,
Victimize and kill....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABACABADAbAEC ABACABADAEC AaAfAcAcAEC ABACABADAfb ACACACXAccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,11,11,11,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101 10011 0101 010101 0101 11111 0101 10101 0101 0110001 0101 1011111 0010101 0101 10011 0101 010101 0101 11111 0101 10101 0101 1011111 0010101 0101 01101 0101 10001 0101 010111 0101 00101 0101 1011111 0010101 0101 10011 0101 010101 0101 11111 0101 10101 0101 0110 001 0101 010101 0101 010101 0101 010101 0101 1 1 1
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; kills is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word kills is repeated.
The author used the same word denials 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 kills is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word alibis at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase kills connects the lines.
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