This is an analysis of the poem Posturing...'What An Attitudinizer ' that begins with:
What are they doing?
It's fascinating....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bcXb cXX deffghfdXfXXe hcX ihdXbXgh cXahaX ca XcX cbfXc aXaXaXXIJB baXaXaXXIJB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,3,13,3,8,6,2,3,5,10,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 01010 11101 001110 110111 1110000011 1010 00101 101001010 110111 110000001 1011 1110111 111001 10010 101011 11 10101100 110110101001 10010101 100 0010001111 11101010 001110010 1001 0101 11011010 111111 001 11111 110000101 1011 11101010010111 1101001110110 1000 01100 110010 11101010110 111 1101010 100 1 110110 100 1 1 1100 11100000 11110100101 100 1110000011100000 100 1110000011100000 100 1110000011100000 11100000 1110101 111110 110011 1 100 1110000011100000 100 1110000011100000 100 1110000011100000 11100000 1110101 111110 110011
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, their, what, attitudinizer are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines attitudinizer is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word do at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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