This is an analysis of the poem Wetness that begins with:
Keeping it a thought you detest...
Is a kept confession, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC ADC Xab ABC ADC aeaeX ABC ADC cXcac XABC ADC Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,5,3,3,5,4,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001101 001010 1110 11100101 11011 11110 0101110101 1010100 00100110 10001101 001010 1110 11100101 11011 11110 1010 10111010011 01110 11111011101 01111110 10001101 001010 1110 11100101 11011 11110 1011100110 1101 11110 1010111 110 10 10001101 001010 1110 11100101 11011 11110 1 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 88
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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:
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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wetness is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word wetness at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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