This is an analysis of the poem Our Stubborn Definitions Kept that begins with:
Most of us were taught to keep sustained,
Only one interest....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc cXdcb Xbebfae cggh ccXbdhcd dhbhb Xbfhccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,7,4,8,5,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010101 101100 11101001 10101110 110010010011 101000101111010 101011110010 00100101 101001 100100110111 0001000101000 11011101 1110101101 110111110 0110001000100 10100101 1010111 1110101 00101100010 110100101 1010111 10111101100 1001 11011101 101001100 0011010 0111001 11111100 101010110101 110101 00100111111 1001001100101 1101010100 11101 1101010101010 110101 1101110111 0010010111110 110011111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, and are repeated.
The author used the same words we, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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