This is an analysis of the poem Self-Inflicted that begins with:
Restricted with wanted wishes.
Yet kept confined by limits, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccdb becfgc hdceee ijacgbj X aXbgc X cXha X X X fa XcgkX c a g X XgkfikX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,7,1,5,1,4,1,1,1,2,5,1,1,1,1,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001010 1101110 1101010 110101 1100010101 101001011 0101101010 1100010101010 101011111 010101101010 11000110111 0010011101 110 100100100 11100101 11100010 11100010101 01101101 111100101 1110010 0111100 111001 1111010 0010111 111001100 11010110011 00101100100 11000111010 1111010 110100111 111001000101 11000 110101 111101100010 111110101110 01010 1111011 111010 1111011111 111000111 111010 1 101111001 11011 101001 101101 00101 11011001010 110 111101 010011111 1111100011 1110011 10101 1110111 101001001 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, to are repeated.
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