This is an analysis of the poem No Other Surveillance Is Needed that begins with:
I have already received to believe,
No other surveillance is needed......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdaeXfgc bbabhfcigc debjeb Xeeiebdg fgX ehX ehXefdd chX ed XfX XX Xecc jX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,6,8,3,3,7,3,2,3,2,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001001 110010010 111110 1010100111 1111001 101001 111111 01010001 01110 101000110 1101001 001101 1000111 0111010 1010101101 1100 111010101 111 011001100 111001 10100111 01001010 001111 11110 11101 110101 11 101100110 0010 111101 101000001 11110010 0010011 001010001000 11111 0101 11001 11010 01010 0110101 11 111100110 10 101010010 10100010 010001 1010101 111 101101 1101000 11 11 10 11 110101000 111011100 01100 100 011 011110101 010101 111011100 101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 63
- 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:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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 words i, peaceful are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines 'something' is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase peaceful connects the lines.
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