This is an analysis of the poem Prior To Whatever The Outcome that begins with:
Who knows if those decisions we make,
Will achieve and please......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabb acde aXbb eXca FDFEXFDFE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101011 00111 101001 001001100101 011110 010001 1001010 011101 001000101101000 11 1011011 00100101101 11110100101 111101111001 100110011101 1011110111 100110011 010 100110011 01 100110011 010 100110011 01
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word prior at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word done at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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