This is an analysis of the poem It Takes A Test Of Patience that begins with:
It takes more than just eyes,
One must keep on a prize....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABCDAD ceaXeXXAABCDAD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111 111101 0101010 0011100 10111 0101001101 110100010100 01001010 0110101111 01010111 1101110100 110101 100 011111 111101 0101010 0011100 10111 0101001101 110100010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; one is repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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