This is an analysis of the poem Do Whatever It Is You Wish that begins with:
What you are trying to save,
Has already diminished in quality....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCB XXXa ABCB DXeXXDeca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001 10100100100 11000111001 1101100100 001010101101 110110101 100101011 1111001 1111001 10100100100 11000111001 1101100100 11100011 11101001 11010100 01110 11100011 1110000100 101001 010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; you is repeated.
The author used the same word do at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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