This is an analysis of the poem My Ambitions Are To Defy Logic that begins with:
Why do you tie your shoes like that?
'To see how quickly it can be done, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bX caXa dX eeXfc cgX XfbaXXagabc dfXgfXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,4,2,5,3,11,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 111100101 111111 11000100 010111 010010111 111101010111 1010100110 111100111001 11 1111 1101010101 011 1100101011010 11010 00011101 10101001101 1 010 11101111 0111 1001101 11001000110 0101 101 11111111 1011001 001010 11111 11011011001 111011111110 1001111101101 1111001 1110 11101001110101011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines behavior is repeated).
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