This is an analysis of the poem On Quitting that begins with:
How much grit do you think you've got?
Can you quit a thing that you like a lot?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Aabbccddeebb aaddddAaeeaaXaabbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,19,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 1110111101 1110101101 11001100101 111100111 111101101 1110101111 111101100 1110100101 010111101 111101101 110101101 1101111101 110101101 10100100101 00100110101 1010110001 0011111101 11111111 1110111101 1110101001 110101011 011010111 1110111111 010110101 0011101111 1010100111 0011100111 11100110111 011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 431
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to, of are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word quit at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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