This is an analysis of the poem How Do You Wish To Start Act Two? that begins with:
Often brought to the edge,
By an overheard interpretation.......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abcbbdc Aec acfcfXcbXe ggehe dXX ijj efhic igXXiXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,3,10,5,3,3,5,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001 1110101010 101010 1000100010 01 1010010 010001001 101001 11011 110 1111101 010100 10110 1 0101001 001100101 0100101 01011010101 1101001 01 110001001001 0110101110001 01011 101010011110 00101011111 1011001101 111110 1001111011 010110101 111011 110001 1 1011001011110100 11101010 1101111101011 10100101111010 1101 11110111 00100101 10011 101 1101000110 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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 is repeated.
The author used the same word often at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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