This is an analysis of the poem How To Do Things 'Their' Way that begins with:
Those who age want to stay in place.
Fearing to let go......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXcXXdda eXeXXcbdda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 10011 00101010 0100110110 01100011 110100 0111010 10110 1110010 01011 1111111 00100110 101111 011101011000 00100111110 101010101 1010101100 010010010 001011010 111011001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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 is repeated.
The author used the same word those at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- idea of the verse;
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