This is an analysis of the poem They Are Not The Kind that begins with:
Am I stuck to plunge,
When I have not desired this? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCD ecff XXgf cbhXcg ABCDijicXXjghhhe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,6,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 11110100 1100101 1110111001 110010 10100101 11111111 1110011111 110 1010101 1011 1101001101 110110100 010011 1011111 11000100 100100 110101 11101 11110100 1100101 1110111001 1 01111010 110101 10101 0010111 11 1111 1011101 11101 110101 01
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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