This is an analysis of the poem Effective Kept Deceptions that begins with:
Lives to live are more gratified,
And satisfied......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAXAB CDCB EFFA AGB CDCB EFFA AAXAB AGBfAGA baHaafXaHbh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,3,4,4,5,7,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101 1101 110100 11010 10101010 010111 110001 110101 10101010 111011 1010111 1110101 10101 0101010101 010 0101010101 010111 110001 110101 10101010 111011 1010111 1110101 10101 10111101 1101 110100 11010 10101010 0101010101 010 0101010101 001 0101010101 010 0101010101 110 01 01101 001101 01010 0101 111001 01101 10101010 01
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; effective, kept, deceptions are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word deceptions at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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