This is an analysis of the poem Options Of Deceit that begins with:
I would find truth offensive too...
If I had not allowed myself a break, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb Xbc cda XdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 0111011101 01010 111010011 11011010 0111100101010 101111100 0110001 01 1010111 00110100110 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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