This is an analysis of the poem Direct And Selective that begins with:
I had been reprimanded,
When I spoke of my love....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdX daeaaX eXfXXdX dfcXggb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 111011 110111 111100 11001001 0100 110001 01010110 00101 1000101 1111010 101011001 101 111100110 1001111111 1101010 1111101110 10101 11101101 110100 1001 10110 11010110011 111101001 1110011 011010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; i, when, to, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
The author used the same words i, and 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 love is repeated).
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