This is an analysis of the poem Choices that begins with:
If i can't do
what i want to do ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbacda XdbbeXb aeabcbf gfcgfaeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,7,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111 11101 111001 11111 01 01011 100111 1 0111 1111 11001 111 10101 1111 010101 1111 111 011111 1011 1111010 10110 00100 11101 11101 11010 11101 1100010 11 11111 01010100 101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The author used the same word if 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 do is repeated).
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- summary of Choices;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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