This is an analysis of the poem Because Even The Word Obstacle Is An Obstacle that begins with:

Try to love everything that gets in your way:
the Chinese women in flowered bathing caps...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdefbghdggicXXgheXabcddfiXdXXad
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10110111011 00110010101 10001001001011010011 111011011001 111001011011 01010111101010 10100011001 11010011011 1011001 1111001010 011011001 011110110100 00101001010111 1010010101010101 1101110101 0111101010010 01111011101 111011011110 0011011010010 101011010 10111001101011 00101 101011000011 110111 000111010101 100011001 1011110101101 111101101101 1111101 011110 001011010001010 01010001100 101101 01100110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1510
  • Average number of words per stanza: 277
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, to are repeated.

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