This is an analysis of the poem Continue To Know Your Ball that begins with:

Continue to know your ball.
Feel it before and after, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXX AB cacXAB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0100111 1001110 010011 0100111 111111 11001001101 0010010100 110100101 0100111 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 75
  • Average number of words per stanza: 15
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your is repeated.

    The author used the same word continue at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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