This is an analysis of the poem Choose Another Path To Take that begins with:
Too much energy continues to be wasted,
By those who lock horns in heated debates....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacbdac XX b dXbX a XaXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,2,1,4,1,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111000100010 1111101001 1000010101101 110100101010 00100100010111 1101010100110011 10001001001 101110010010110 111110011000100 1110101011 110100011001 11 11010101 011111001 0101001010101010 11101 11 11101001001 111110111110 1101101011101 101100101010111 11110110010100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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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