This is an analysis of the poem It Makes More Sense that begins with:
It makes more sense,
Stopping something not to start....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABABCA AXAXADEf ABABCAADEf AGAHABH AGAHABH AGABHAGABH ABABB ABABB ABABCAABABaBabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,10,7,7,10,5,5,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111 1010101 10111 1011101 1111010 1000101 0111 010110010 10111 00101011 10111 1010001 1000101 101101 10111 1010101 10111 1011101 1111010 1000101 10111 1010001 1000101 1101 10111 0101010010 10111 01110001 10111 01111101 1010111000101 10111 0101010010 10111 01110001 10111 01111101 1010111000101 10111 0101010010 10111 01111101 1010111000101 10111 0101010010 10111 01111101 1010111000101 0111 010111010 10111 01111101 1010101010011 0111 010111010 10111 01111101 1010101010011 0111 1010101 10111 1011101 1111010 1000101 10111 11011010 10111 11011010 10111 11011010 10111 011001 01
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, to, and are repeated.
The author used the same words it, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words do, day, heart at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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