This is an analysis of the poem Kept Resisted that begins with:
These days are not those days,
Many use to face......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcXXAa AdaXcad eAfaADCAFaC ebe XXe ADCAFaCghXACaACaAdAhCgChchCa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,11,3,3,28,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 10101 000101 1010100 10101001001 11 1111 111111 11001010011 001001001101 101001 01010010 11011 110100100101 1 11 101101 11 11 101101 1001 11 101101 11 01010110100 110010001 1101001111 01001011101 11001010101 011110101 00101100101 11 101101 1001 11 101101 111 01010110100 1111101 01101101 11 01011001 1 11 01011001 1 11 101101100101 11 1001010101 11010 11 11010 01 00010 11 11010 11
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; days, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same words these, what 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 days is repeated).
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