This is an analysis of the poem It Isn'T Yours To Keep To Have It that begins with:
Move from an attitude to lose.
You can dry your eyes, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAB BAC BDE BDE BAC AAB BDE DfDe gEgFgEgF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110101 11111 01010111 110011101 01000101 0111 110000101 101010 11101010 110000101 101010 11101010 110011101 01000101 0111 10110101 11111 01010111 110000101 101010 11101010 1101110 11101010 1101110 10101010 1 000101010 1 111101010 1 000101010 1 111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 98
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; you, to, that, it are repeated.
The author used the same word choose at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word habit at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase do connects the lines.
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