This is an analysis of the poem To Keep A Shrill Unending that begins with:
I see it in your face...
Baybee, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXAXAXAX BXCC BC CDCD CDCD BCAXAXAXAX XCXCXCXC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,2,4,4,10,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011 1 110011 10111010 110011 1 110011 10111010 111010 11101010 111010101 111010101 111010 111010101 111010101 001010 111010101 0101010 111010101 001010 111010101 0101010 111010 111010101 110011 1 110011 10111010 110011 1 110011 10111010 1 11101010101 1 11101010101 1 11101010101 1 11101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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, want, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word all is repeated.
The author used the same words you, all at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines fault is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words fault, unending at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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