This is an analysis of the poem Personal Reasoning that begins with:
Let's get one thing straight.
Without debating over it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabcXcXa ddaeaaXcf XgaghX Xa ciiX icXb gX fj agXeXbfgX DD hXdXcXjXXDD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,6,2,4,4,2,2,9,2,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 01010100 111 11011010 101100 10100 11111111 111111 101110010 111011 1110101011101 010010011 1011011010 10101011 0111001 1110011100010 100100100101 10110011111 10 011 1 11111101 1111001 0101001111 1 1111111 10101 111100 010110 11111011111 11110100 11 1 11101100100 11 1110101 1011100111 1011 11000 111111 101 110 1111 1111100 1011 1001 011010010111 11 11111 11101 0010110010011 11 101011 1110111 11011111101 1111011110001 11101110 11 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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