This is an analysis of the poem Admonitions To A Special Person that begins with:

Watch out for power,
for its avalanche can bury you, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abc dda efgdh dicdX dchhj XbeXjj ccdbigk ccheccjhdfXbcefecbkjc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,5,5,5,6,7,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110 101011101 111100110 1111 011001111101 0111111010 1111 0111010 110 1010110010 110101 111101 0101110110 11110111 1010111 11011 11110101 011110 1101101 11011010101 1011111 1111 01001 11001011101001 001111010 111101 11011001 10010010 01001110101 11100011100 110100111 1100101010010 111101111 000101101101101 1010 0101111010 0101001 1111011 111101 001010 1110101111 0110111011011 010111111 1011101 1111 11010 1001 01101110100 11011010 01010 11 1011011 111101 101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; for, snow, it, be, to, give, your, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, give are repeated.

    The author used the same word watch at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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