This is an analysis of the poem It Doesn't Pay At All To Assume that begins with:
It doesn't pay to take away,
One's dignity to smear and smudge....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCCD EcfXagghcij hkfl ABCCDEeaXlgklkgfXijkEh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,11,4,22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 11000111 1010001 1001 00101011 010111 0001001101 0010001010001 101101010 10011100111 11101001 010010101 010010 0101001100010 0111101001 10001100100 1111 01111011 0011111 1110110 01010101 11000111 1010001 1001 00101011 010111 00111010001 01000110101011 011001000010 110111 10101010000010 001111 001001001110 0001000111101 101110100010 111010100 0101001 0100101001000100 111100010010 010111 001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, it are repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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- summary of It Doesn't Pay At All To Assume;
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- idea of the verse;
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