This is an analysis of the poem Kept Desires that begins with:
I have had some soaring highlights,
Very early in my life......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXab caabbX ccXcde XX efBGeDG BGeDG ffBGDDGD BGDDGDgDX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,2,7,5,8,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111011 1010011 01111100100 01110111010 1010101010 1110011011101 11 0101 11010011 11010001011101 111010101 1101001011100010 111010010010011 0100101110100111 100101111011101101 11110101011001001 00111000010010111 1101000111101 10 0111 10101010101101 0010101 10101011101 11 1 1011101110 11 10101011101 11 1 1011101110 11 1010101 1111001 10101011101 11 11010 1011101110 11 11010 10101011101 11 11010 1011101110 11 11010 111 11010 111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word faith at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Kept Desires;
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