This is an analysis of the poem Few Have Seen Those Bruises that begins with:
Few have seen those bruises on my knees.
Or heard me pleading in the wilderness weeping, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaaXb XXXbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110111 111100010010 01101 011011 11100101 01010101010 11100001 01001101111 01000100110010010 110100010011101 010100101110 1111010100110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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; to, i are repeated.
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