This is an analysis of the poem Less Analytical that begins with:
You can make up your mind,
That you will......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDE ABCFab bXbXcf gBEBhFIe ABCDE ABCFb gBEBhFIeXahFIhe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,6,8,5,5,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 110 10100 1010 00101010 111111 110 10100 101 1 110100 01100100010 01 01100101010 1101101 1 010101 11111001010 10100 111100101 10100 110101 0010101 11 000111 111111 110 10100 1010 00101010 111111 110 10100 101 1110100 1111001010 10100 111100101 10100 11101 0010101 11 0010111 1 10111 0010101 11 0 00111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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 is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word choose at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Less Analytical;
- central theme;
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- critical appreciation.
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