This is an analysis of the poem It Behooves The Doer To Be Careful that begins with:
When you set out to do,
Something awful to someone......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCD eXXeX ABCD XXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 1010011 11111 00101 010101001 111100 1111101 010101101 00 111101 1010011 11111 00101 110110110 11111 110101011101 001010010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; all is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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