This is an analysis of the poem Quick To Finish Mentalities that begins with:
It's not how one starts.
But how they finish....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbc bXdb X XXe ddXX fbc X Xg X hahg dafX eXed dddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,1,3,4,3,1,2,1,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111 11110 0010001100 01001011011 111010010100 010101000 1010101 01101110100 111111110000 101011101 1101001 110101 11000111101 1101010 101010011 1001111110 1110111011 1101010100100 00110111010 11 1 1101101001 100100 01010 1010101111 00100111011000 0111011101 11101110 01001111 0100001011010 0100011010101 11 111111010101000 011100101010011 1101101 110101 111101010011 0101001101110 111100010110100
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words is, it, i are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases is, it connect the lines.
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