This is an analysis of the poem Self-Deception that begins with:
I may have once lived,
With a kept self-deception....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCC DEFg Xbab hiX ABCC hXXX giaad bXbfhbXDEFgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,3,4,4,5,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 0011010 1011101 00100101 1111 011100 1101100100 010110011 110101011 00110101 101000111 11100011101 1110111101 1111101 11001000101 11111 0011010 1011101 00100101 110010111 101101 011101 110011100000 10111101 1010000111 00110101 1101010001 10111010101 110111001010 11101011010 101110011010 010010110110 00110111111 0100001011 1111 011100 1101100100 0101100110101 11
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 39
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Self-Deception;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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