This is an analysis of the poem It Isn'T Traditional that begins with:
Is it poetry?
Is it a narrative....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdD eefghXggXfXfD XeeXdhfdf DaDbDdcd X deiif
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,13,9,8,1,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00100 000100 00110 00101 11 001010 100100110 0011100 1110010 011001010 1101 110100101 1001000101 01010101101 110100101 0011100100 01101111101 11 1 10001 10011 0010101 110001 1110010 101001010 10111 10111011001 100 100 100 0100 100 0101 001010 001011111 10001000 1111010 11101 0111100 1101 111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; it is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words is, with are repeated.
The author used the same word is at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines be is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word knows at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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