This is an analysis of the poem Contemplating The Insufficiency Of Past Errors that begins with:

Every position you have taken on this situation,
Has produced the opposite dire results....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXde feeb fXababXcfefXfX dddbebXedabdeb aX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,14,14,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1000101110101010 10101001001 111110111011 001010001001101010 11100111101 11010101 110101010001010 101010000100101 11010010101000001010 0010110111001001001 1010100100000110 01001011000101100 01010101111001 001001010001100000101 0100010100110010 00110010011101111 001010100001101 1100010110101001 101010 0101001010 10011101111 0010110010010111 101011 10101001011010101 10 110101 1101000101 1100110101101 110 11010101010001 010010010110100 00110100111001 110100110 1101010 101110 110100110001100010 00100101111 11101001 110010010 110100010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 375
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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, this, our are repeated.

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