This is an analysis of the poem Once My Silence Held You Spellbound that begins with:
You wouldn't discuss me because my suffering
was not theoretical enough. Enough. Enough. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbb cXXdeXcefdXXXccfa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011011100 1110100010101 011111010001 11010001 11111111 11100010 1101011010 111001111 11101 110101111 11010010 11001001 1101011101010 10111100101 1101101010 10101010 1011110101 01111101 111110010 111110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; enough, i, can, them are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, that are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines enough is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase enough connects the lines.
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