This is an analysis of the poem Refuse To Be Driven To Fits that begins with:

Grab your destiny.
Prepare to mix a recipe......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AABC DEdb DFf BfX AABC DEFF GFFF GFFFXDBFFeGFFFeGFFF
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,4,4,4,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100 01010100 00101 1111 11101 00111001 11100 111 101111101 0110 1110 101111101 10101001 01111101 11100 01010100 00101 1111 11101 00111001 0110 1110 01001001 11100011 0110 1110 01001001 11100011 0110 1110 101111101 101111101 0110 1110 1 01001001 11100011 0110 1110 1 01001001 11100011 0110 1110
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; you, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.

    The author used the same words you, refuse at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Refuse To Be Driven To Fits;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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