This is an analysis of the poem Choose To Boot It Just To Mute that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBCBDC aBCBDC XBaaXee XaBCBDC aBD aBD aBD aBD fBAba bAbD XfBDXbD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,7,3,3,3,3,5,4,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 11 11111010 11 10100010 101110101 1 11 11111010 11 10100010 101110101 11 11 101000101010101 110101110010101 0111011 011110001111111 11101011001 1111 1 11 11111010 11 10100010 101110101 1 11 1010101 1 11 1010101 1 11 1010101 1 11 1010101 11 11 111000100110 111 11100010 1111 111000100110 1111 1010101 1 1 11 1010101 1111 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 53
  • Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • 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; to, and, it, you, wanted are repeated.

    The author used the same words and, or at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same words lose, mute at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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