This is an analysis of the poem Promises Of Honesty that begins with:
I never made a promise to myself,
To stay honest....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcabXbXXXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010011 0110 1110101000 01110101 1100010011011 0001111 100010011101 110100010101 0110010 01100010 11101 11011110 1101110010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 451
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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, of are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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- summary of Promises Of Honesty;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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