This is an analysis of the poem Is This What You Choose? that begins with:
Why have you submitted and condoned,
Defeat....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbBCDE abbCDE FBGfAAA AbBCDE HFHBHGfAAA FBGfAAA AbBCDEXFhBCDE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,6,10,7,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101 01 111101010 1100 01 1101 11111010101 01 100101010 1100 01 1101 00111 00111 00111 0 10110 1011101 001 111010101 01 111101010 1100 01 1101 11 00111 11 00111 11 00111 0 10110 1011101 001 00111 00111 00111 0 10110 1011101 001 111010101 01 111101010 1100 01 1101 00111 11111 00111 1100 01 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, this, what, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words is, something are repeated.
The poet repeated the same words leave, fed at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Is This What You Choose?;
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