This is an analysis of the poem Like A Thrown Boomerang that begins with:
Minimize the pain that came to remain.
Even though it's difficult to let it go....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb AdEFEFAd ccbXX AAAA EfEf GHGXGHa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,5,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1010111001 10101000101 1010100101 1010001010101 11010111 001000110001 101000101 100100101 101000101 100100101 11010111 0010000010001 1011101 1011101001 11011111 11101101001 101010101 11010111 00100011101 11010111 00100011101 10110110101 10100101 10110110101 00100011101 101101 1111 101101 010101 101101 1111 0111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, what, one, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word even is repeated.
The author used the same word like at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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