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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  • summary of Do You Want To Do Maneuvers;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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