This is an analysis of the poem Impulsive! that begins with:
Impulsive!
I try my best not to be....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbccX abcaXXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic trimeter or irregular meter
- Metre: 010 1111100 11111010 110110001 01011100 1011101 010 01 110101 01000111 11111 1111011 111010111 111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The author used the same word impulsive at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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