This is an analysis of the poem Few Can Pick Them To Then Run that begins with:
How can one live without risks.
Or prevent risks to exist....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDE EEEE EEEE ABCDE EEEE EEEE abaXEAEAEE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,5,4,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011 1011001 1100010011 100 1101 1110011 1110011 1110011 0001 1110011 1110011 1110011 0001 1111011 1011001 1100010011 100 1101 1110011 1110011 1110011 0001 1110011 1110011 1110011 0001 1010101 11110101 11 1110011 011 1110011 011 1110011 0001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; few, can, pick, them, to, then, run are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word few is repeated.
The author used the same word few at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines run is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word undone at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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