This is an analysis of the poem Ducking Tasks that begins with:
Ducking tasks to not to face,
But pass to leave unfinished....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXc abcX cacc aXccXX AabXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,6,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1010101 1101010 10110 001011 1010111 01101101 01001111 010100111 1100101100 11011 10101110010 010111 110001101 0101 10101011 0100111 1010100 101011111001 1010101 1101010111 10111111101 11000010 0011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 23
- 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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word from is repeated.
The author used the same word ducking at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Ducking Tasks;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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