This is an analysis of the poem Diminishing Of Integrity that begins with:
A diminishing of integrity,
Now gone....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABABXccddBE ABABDBE ABDBE ABbE ABEXABABABBBABbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,7,5,4,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010000100 11 0010000100 11 1 01000111 010101001 0 010001 11001 0110110 0010000100 11 0010000100 11 0010001 11001 0110110 0010000100 11 0010001 11001 0110110 0010000100 11 11001 0110110 0010000100 11 0110110 0010000100 11 0010000100 11 0010000100 11 11 11 0010000100 11 1 1
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (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; now, gone are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words now, gone are repeated.
The author used the same word a 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 gone is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word meaning 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 gone connects the lines.
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