This is an analysis of the poem Exclusively Aloof that begins with:
You dip in your evils.
While others choose to sneak, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC ABC DD EFGFCDH ABC EFGCDH DDGCDH FGCDHXAgdfCDh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,2,7,3,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110 110101 1111 110110 110101 1111 11111010 101110 111111 0100010 1111110010001 11111100100010 1010001 1111010 111111 110110 110101 1111 111111 0100010 1111110010001 1010001 1111010 111111 11111010 101110 1111110010001 1010001 1111010 111111 11111100100010 1111110010001 1010001 1111010 111111 110110 111111010001 101110 11111100100010 1010001 1111010 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, find, that, exclusively, you, can are repeated.
The author used the same word you 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 people is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words sleep, do at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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