This is an analysis of the poem Do You Prefer To Have It Spelled? that begins with:
I too thought my elders,
Believed they knew so much....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb XXXa ccbXb XdceXXec XXcadc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110 011111 111010 11101 111100100 01000100 11111010001 100111010101 010011 11011 1110010101101 11111101 01001111 01 1101011011 01110010001001 11111 100101010101011 1110111010101 10111011 00101101010 10111 11010101 11011 111001 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, to are repeated.
The author used the same words i, today at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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