This is an analysis of the poem There Is A Proper Way For Doing Everything that begins with:
In hewing an axe-shaft, how must you act?
Another axe take, or you'll never succeed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab abXab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101111111 01011111001 0100101101 10110111011 0101111001 10101101011 0100111001 11110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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