This is an analysis of the poem Do You Want To Do Maneuvers that begins with:
Do you want to...
Live each day doing everything that you like....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABACADeAfAaAgAgeAfABACADHH
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110 11110101111 1110 1011101101 1110 101111011 1 110 1 1110 01010101111 1110 010 1110 010 1 110 1 1110 11110101111 1110 1011101101 1110 101111011 11101010 11101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 574
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
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; you, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word do is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines maneuvers is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase do connects the lines.
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