This is an analysis of the poem From Limits Wished To Pick that begins with:

A quick turn around found,
By those hot and trodden......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBCde ABCDFaB Edd EXc afCd XgCXg ABCDFaBhBBBFhBBBF CE CEXCE
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,3,3,4,5,17,2,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011011 111110 1001 101010 110001 01101 111110 1001 1010100101 010001011 1 010100101 010101 0101010 00111001 010101 0101010 0101010101 1010101 01110101 0101010101 1 1010101 01110 0101010101 10101 10101011010 01101 111110 1001 1010100101 010001011 1 010100101 0 101010 10101010 01101010 1011101 0 101010 10101010 01101010 1011101 11010 010101 11010 010101 11010 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; to, and, conflict, confusion are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same words a, from, getting, and 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 confusion is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word pick at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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