This is an analysis of the poem Excessive Confessions that begins with:
Let go and let rest,
Of those excessive confessions....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCA debXcb aaX Xfde ABCA gheeia XaaX XaXbj agX gbeb jX ABCAfbkX bXjahda ggdX ABCAffb Xaediakfh XX Xh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,3,4,4,6,4,5,3,4,2,8,7,4,7,9,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 01010010 1101010 101001111 111101010 0010110101 1010010 110011001000 1100110 011110100 1101 101111010 011 11110 1101111 1011111110 1001110110100 11111 01010010 1101010 101001111 1110110101 1101110 001010101 010001010 11001010101 01011010100 1 11111100 11101 1101111011 1 11101100 1101101011 11110 10110001010 11111011100 11111 1101010101 11 11110101 011101 010111 11101 011111100 11111 01010010 1101010 101001111 11011101 0101101010 00100010 11111110011 01010 1 101111111 1101 111 11 10110011101 11010111001 0111 10110 111111101 11111 01010010 1101010 101001111 01101101101 101101 10101001 1 1010 1011 00111010010 1101 11101110110 1100110 1101 101001101010 11 1110 10 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i, and, free are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines free is repeated).
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