This is an analysis of the poem It's Difficult To Keep that begins with:
It's difficult to keep,
A truth to smother hidden....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABBBACDEDABABAEAfX AdXbeABABAEAE ABBBACDEDABABAEAEAfAbgXfage
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,13,27,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010001 0101010 1000100 0101010 010001 010001 1010001 1111010 0010001 0110001 0101010001 1001 101010101 1001 1010101001 1001 010 0010 0010001 0100010 10101010 10101010 0110101 0110001 0101010001 1001 101010101 1001 1010101001 1001 0100011001 010001 0101010 1000100 0101010 0110001 010001 1010001 1111010 0010001 0010001 0101010001 1001 101010101 1001 1010101001 1001 0100011001 1001 111000101 1001 111000101 1 1011101 10111011 010101 11010101 010100001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 527
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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, it are repeated.
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