This is an analysis of the poem Confessions that begins with:
What is he buzzing in my ears?
"Now that I come to die,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb cdcd eXeb fgXg fcfc hXhX cicX fjXjXihah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110011 1011101 11101101010 1100111 1111111101 1010101 1010100101 00101111 1110110101 0011110 10010100101 1100101 0101101110 101111 111010101000 00110001 1010111010 111111 011110010 111101 10110111 110101 10011101 11111100 111010111 1110101 000111111 110101 1101011010 1110101 1010010101000 110101 1110110101 111101 11111101 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Confessions;
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- idea of the verse;
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