This is an analysis of the poem Kept To Only Self-Demean that begins with:
The time has come to get away from...
What's been done and underneath....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabcc DEcEcAeb eBeB X AFABDBXAAAFABDB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,4,1,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101010 1011101 0101000111 1010001 1 100010011 101101010 1101110 110101 1101110 0101111 101 110101 1010101 110101 110101 110010101 110101 101100100100 101 11010 101 110101 101101010 01000111 101 101 101 11010 101 110101 101101010 01000111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; to, it, let, go are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word let is repeated.
The author used the same word let 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 go is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words demean, scene at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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