This is an analysis of the poem Once You'Ve Picked Your Ticket that begins with:
Once you've picked your ticket,
And there is a magic felt with it......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAXbXb CddXXE AACcXE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110 110010100 10101111 111011 010100101 10100111 1001011010 1001111 110110010 1101101 11110111 10100101001 111110 110010100 1001011010 100111110 1110111100 10100101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; to is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word flee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Once You'Ve Picked Your Ticket;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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