This is an analysis of the poem Pointless Decisions Made that begins with:
It is not unusual today,
To find those not keeping abreast......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXcd BAECDFB fbedaee ebdXdbe BAECDFBe EaaEegg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,8,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001010001 01111001 01100101 010001101 11001 111010 1100111110 10010 0111101 1001001 11110110 010011011101 10110010010 1110101101110 0110010 10101011 11001010 110011010100 0100101110010 101101010101101 111110110 111010001 1001001000 1110110111 11001 111011010 11010100 1010111010010101 10010 0111101 1001001 11110110 010011011101 10110010010 1110101101110 00101011100101 1110101100101 11010100101 0011010010011 1110101100101 1010100110 0110001 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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, have are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines made is repeated).
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