This is an analysis of the poem Certain Things I Am Learning To Perfect that begins with:
Can I stop what you 'think'?
No....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcXXbXb baXdebX bXb feebXb acfgeebd ghbebX dhfXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,3,6,8,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 1 011 111111010010 1011111 110 1100101011 11110110110100 011 1 110110001 10 1010011 0111011 111 101010111000 111011110001 00100001011 011010001 1010 1100001 001111011 10100101 1100111 1010 1 1101100 0110100111 100101111 001001 11101101010 10101111001 1011101 1111101111 010101010010 1100010100 101 11010101 11101001100 111 111101 1111010 11 111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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