This is an analysis of the poem The Freedom Of What Honesty Gives that begins with:
I have no desire to 'acquire' honesty.
I am honest and this offends pretenders....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbcabcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110100100100 11101001010 111100010010 0101001100 110100001001101 111011010100 001011 0101000101011 00100011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 393
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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