This is an analysis of the poem Keeping The Peace Leaves Me Desperate that begins with:
Keeping the peace leaves me desperate..
When thinking my peace, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCbAbA DCeAA ABCbAbA DCeAA DC AAAA ABCXAAAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,7,5,2,4,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111100 11011 1100 1 100111100 1 100111100 111101100 10110101 1 100111100 100111100 100111100 11011 1100 1 100111100 1 100111100 111101100 10110101 1 100111100 100111100 111101100 10110101 100111100 100111100 100111100 100111100 100111100 11011 1100 100111100 100111100 100111100 100111100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; peace, me, keeping, leaves, desperate are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word keeping is repeated.
The author used the same words i, keeping 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 desperate is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word desperate at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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