This is an analysis of the poem Perhaps He Can Tell Us What He Knows that begins with:
If one continues to remove obstacles,
Off of one's path....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXXXb cbXadaXX cedbaae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010001100 1011 1010111011 1010100101 010100110010 111101 0101010010001 111110 10101 1001101 11001110 0101110 111100101101 11111000 1010101110 1010010 1110110010010 111101010 1010011001101 101 011111111 11111001011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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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