This is an analysis of the poem A Positive Expression that begins with:
Everytime I hear words of encouragement,
Whether to me spoken......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXaadee Xfeaba dgcgXfgfe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,6,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111100100 100110 1111001 1101110100 0011011011 1001010100 11101101100 001001000101 101000011110 11100010 010111010 101100100101 010001000100001 110101 111 1111 11001 11100111001 011100001101 01000001110 011101110111001 11011010101 10110100010 001001110011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 295
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; to is repeated.
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