This is an analysis of the poem Skepticism that begins with:
Before you wanted more.
As a means to demean with skepticism....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XaXX XXXabX bXb abX Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,6,3,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101 10100101010 1111111 1111010011 110001 1010010011 011 110101 1001011001001 1111101010 1011 10101011 11101011011 11101001010111 11 1011001 1001101101 11111110 111010010100 1000010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; you, i are 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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