This is an analysis of the poem Lips 'Eventually' Shut Quick that begins with:
To rush is to stumble.
What walking is to crawl....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010 110001 11100011 01111101 1010111 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; to is repeated.
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