This is an analysis of the poem We Keep It Secret that begins with:
Nobody sees us,
So in love......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcDE AfcGGA ABcde DFDD DHAAI DFDD ABcDE AfcGGA DFDD XDHAAI DDFDD DDFDDgb CDC CDC CDCXC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,5,4,5,4,5,6,4,6,5,7,3,3,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 101 1 1010101 111111 11111 100 1 1111 1101 111111 11111 101 1 0011111 11111 1101011 1110 01010110 01001101 1101011 111 1101 1101 010101 1101011 1110 01010110 01001101 11111 101 1 1010101 111111 11111 100 1 1111 1101 111111 1101011 1110 01010110 01001101 1 1101011 111 1101 1101 010101 111 101011 1110 01010110 01001101 111 101011 1110 01010110 01001101 1 01 11010 111 110111 11010 111 110111 11010 111 110111 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 90
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; we is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same words nobody, we, oh 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 us, we are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word meet at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of We Keep It Secret;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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