This is an analysis of the poem Things That Haven'T Been Done Before that begins with:
The things that haven't been done before,
Those are the things to try;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Ababcdcd ebebdXda fgfgdada Ababhdhd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011100101 110101 010101011 10100111 1011110111 11100101 1111100101 10100101 0100100101 011101 111111101 00111001 111100101 101111010 111110101 10110101 011101111 1100110 001011101 0111111 1111100101 1101111 110110101 1101101 011100101 1011101 1110011101 11111101 1110010111 10100101 111101111 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word are is repeated.
The author used the same word the 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 before is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word before at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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