This is an analysis of the poem Flip That Guilt that begins with:
Too quiet are those silent nights.
When guilt decides it is time to visit....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXabXcbb baC aaC DaD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 1101001010 1101010 0011100111 101111010 0100101011 0101 1100100101 11101 1111 01001100 01011100 01010101 00100111 010 01010101 1001111101 101 1001111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; it is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word away at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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