This is an analysis of the poem Regardless If The Act Of It Is Avoidable that begins with:

They don't want,
THAT direction! ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbbbX cdeaff dgXaeXa hah bcef ddgeeXXccac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,3,4,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111 1010 111010 1010101 1010 110010 1010100011 01001001010 001001 011010010 0010100010 1010 111011001 010010100 0011001 11100101 0100101101 01111 110 101000 0101001001 010000010010 11001011110 1011001 1011 011101 111111 10110110 00111 101011 001110010111 0001001 11110 110011 10110011 01000100 00100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

    The author used the same word and 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 direction is repeated).

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