This is an analysis of the poem Now! To Do It To Do...Now! that begins with:

It isn't just the distrust between us,
Used as a tool to demean....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbddX aeXacXc Fecgggah FXXhgahXch
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,8,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0001001011 1101001 0001010110 011110101 0000010111 010111 11010 00010111001 11101010 100011110111 111010111 001111110001 111001 011100 11010101 010 11010101101 101111110 11101100010 10010001 10010100 101101001 11010101 1010100 101010111001 1 01010101010 11011001101 1 010010 0100111010 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, to, and, now, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

    The author used the same words it, we've 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 now is repeated).

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