This is an analysis of the poem Divorced From Mixed Signals that begins with:
If what is felt with a doing to choose,
Make that move to do it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdcdeaafgXf X hh adXccdfig chi XbXX bei X X iX Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,1,2,9,3,4,3,1,1,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101001001 111010 100001001001 100010 1101101001 0010001010 111011 00100010110 101101001001 010100011001 0100 001110011010 0101101001 1101111100 01 101 101111101 111111010 110 01011101 1101111001 01 10110010 11101 010111101010 1 11 1111001 1 110 110100 1010110 01 11 111 101 1 10101011 101 101 1
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 93
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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, advice, i, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines advice is repeated).
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