This is an analysis of the poem Unable To Admit It that begins with:

Accept your wounds and scars?
To forgive and forget the fact, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCdbeX ABCcbXa AaffcXed
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011111 00110101 1011110010 111101101 11001011101 0110111 101011110 011111 00110101 1011110010 11110111010 11101 001010111 110101010 011111 01010111111 1111011 111111 10010101 11010101000111111 1101010001101 10100111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.

    The author used the same word accept 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 you is repeated).

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