This is an analysis of the poem The Tongue Of One Who Gloats that begins with:
You can block out every thought I have.
You can seal your consciousness into cement....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCBDE cfgfhiXf XX Xgbicch ABCBDEhbXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,2,7,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111100111 11111000001 11110010010 1110101 110101 001111 1 1110111011 101010111101 11 1111011110101 1110111011 01010011 1110011001 11111 10 111011 11011101010 101 0101101 1010101 1111011101 11101011111 1111100111 11111000001 11110010010 1110101 110101 001111 11 111010 010100 10110011010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 33
- 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:
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; you, can are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
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