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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