This is an analysis of the poem When They Initiate A Tension that begins with:
I had to sever my emotions,
From those I had considered 'friends'....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbaXb aacadc ebbcec dcdcbX XXdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,6,6,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101010 01110101 11 01110111 1010110 1010100 1101010011 111101 101010 110001011 11000011100 1101010101010 10110101101 1 101010110 0010110111 111 010111 01001110110101 1100100101010 011100010001 100100101010 00010011101 1110010001010 1111011101 1111100111 11101 10111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to is repeated.
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