This is an analysis of the poem Heating Up To Boil Over that begins with:
Attitudes.
Cemented and fixed in stubbornness....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdb efgXhfa iajXi klekl dammam agbXbcb bbXbae X mdkkjkXh XXfiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,5,5,6,7,6,1,8,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101 010110100 10100100 001010100 101010 0110000100 1011000101 01011110 001010110 110111001 1101001010010 0101101001 1101101 101010111001 10110101 0100100 101101101 0111101001 101001011101 1101011001 00100001 01011110 01100111011 11011011010 01011100 111010010110 1101000101 11001010 0010101110101 101 1010110 110011111 10111010011000 110010111 00100100100011 110100100 1111000100 00101001100 0110100100 11011011101 010001 0010001001 111010 11 111101101 011001 100111100011101 111010011100 11001010001 11001000110 00111001101 1111011 1111000 110101 001011 100101101011
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, and, i, you, of are repeated.
The author used the same word attitudes at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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