This is an analysis of the poem Benefits I Was Close To Giving Away that begins with:
I have learned not to turn away,
From a process taking place I may dislike....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdebabcd X b X f X beXg XfbX Xe XXcX hXghbXcb XX db X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,1,1,1,1,1,4,4,2,4,8,2,2,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 00111011101 1011011 111111 00111100 000010110010 110100000100 1010011101001 0111 111101101 00011000100000101 101 1 110110111001000 111010 10100111110111 01 10010 1 1110001010 111010 1111010 1100101101 111110 1 001101 1 1 1010101101010 1110100101 1 101 11011010 1101 010010 1001101011 10011100 110100101 1 110101011 1100 1110010110 1111010 110110101000
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 82
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; i, to, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
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