This is an analysis of the poem Peace Keeps Me Desperate that begins with:
Peace keeps me desperate,
With a wish not to let it stray....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABBCDe bXAF ABBAF ABBCDe ABBF ABBAF AAF ABBAFXAAF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,5,6,4,5,3,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100 00110101 1101 011101 1110111 0101110 011111 100100 11100101 0010111111 111100 00110101 1101 11100101 0010111111 111100 00110101 1101 011101 1110111 01101110 111100 00110101 1101 0010111111 111100 00110101 1101 11100101 0010111111 111100 11100101 0010111111 111100 00110101 1101 11100101 0010111111 111100 11100101 0010111111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word peace at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word sunrise at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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