This is an analysis of the poem How to Continue that begins with:
Oh there once was a woman
and she kept a shop ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabcd eaaafgg fgdXaeeffdd chbihfdchd ifeihiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,11,10,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 11101 1010010 11001 11011110 111010 101110101 111001101 1101101 110101101 11111000010 010100100 1100 1000110 1110110 111101 101 010110101 10111001 10101 1111010 110010 1101011001010 11010 111101101 101110110 010101101 1010111 0101010101 0101010100 101111 0010110101 001001001010 1101110 11001101 11001101010 11111111 101011010011 101100001 01011101 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and 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 discovered is repeated).
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- summary of How to Continue;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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