This is an analysis of the poem That's The Way that begins with:
Just a little every day-
That's the way!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAbbaccAA AAccaddAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101001 101 1010111 1011101 10101001 1010001 1010101 101 10101001 10101001 101 1010111 1111111 1010111 10101010 101010110 101 10101001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same word just at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word day at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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