This is an analysis of the poem Keep It Focused that begins with:
Focus,
You may never have a chance to start again....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaCXD Ef aBaCXD FFFFXf Ef FGHaGHaA aBaCXDaAaF Xf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,2,6,6,2,8,10,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 11101010101 10 11100011101 10101011 011011011 101010 001 10 11101010101 10 11100011101 10101011 011011011 1010101 01110101 1010101 01110101 10101 1011 101010 011 1010 10111 1010001 10 10111 1010001 10 11110 10 11101010101 10 11100011101 10101011 011011011 10 11110 10 1010 1111110 1010011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; focus is repeated.
The author used the same word focus 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 focus is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase focus connects the lines.
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