This is an analysis of the poem Pointless It Is To Back Away that begins with:
When choosing allies...
One should not do it with the same caution, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbbaabaC XbadXXdddC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010 1111000110 1010110111 1000001010010 1010100111 001001 111001001 010100010010 00010011010 10000101001001 110100101 010010010011 01011001001 0100010011 10011000100 1010001010101 0100110101 110011001001 1110101111 10000101001001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 397
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, be are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word facts at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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