This is an analysis of the poem Exploring Your Options that begins with:
What side do you stand on,
In the midst of change? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABACDDe cXce ABACDDeXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 00101 1111001000010 0100110101 0011101 00110111 01 11101011 010001 1010001 010101001100 111111 00101 1111001000010 0100110101 0011101 00110111 01 01010110 11111 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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