This is an analysis of the poem Diminishing Defenses that begins with:
Let's remove the platitudes.
And rid the phony subtleties, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaXba CAAACAA ACAXbXAA CAAACAA AAA AAAXAAAAAAAAAAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,8,7,3,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 11010100 0100111 01101 10100110101 101101 11010010 0100010 1010101 101101 11010010 0100010 1010101 101101 11010010 111001 01 01 0100010 10010 101101 11010010 0100010 1010101 101101 11010010 0100010 11011101 0100010 10010 11011101 0100010 10010 11011101 0100010 10010 0100010 11011101 11011101 0100010 10010 0100010 10010 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, let are repeated.
The author used the same word let 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 platitudes is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word fences at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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