This is an analysis of the poem In Public Or In Private Corners that begins with:
You came to ravish my pride.
To beg from you all my needs....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccab dbXXXeX eX fX d X XfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,2,2,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 0101111 10111010 1110000110 001 011100111001 11101101 010101010 001110 0100 11111 1011001 11100100 1111110101 101011 1110110101 10 001101011 111111010 1011101 111110111101 0110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 96
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; you, to, i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of In Public Or In Private Corners;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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