This is an analysis of the poem Tearing Down Defenses that begins with:
A joy increases more inside me,
With a pride no longer do I hide....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba acC dbb ddccCbe bdXX beaefbef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,7,4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010101011 001110111 11010001 110101011 11010001 111101 100101011 10101 11110101 11101001 01111101 11010100 01010101 111101 11000011 1101010 1111110 0101110001 1101110 01101010101 11010101 101110 010101 00101010 111101 1 111010 0011100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; i is repeated.
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