This is an analysis of the poem Safety Net that begins with:
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Want to be, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aABC AABC CDEFaab XDXDXBBdaAb XDXDXBBD CDEFedeX XDXDXBBD aABC AABC AdAdAdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,11,8,8,8,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 100 1110 1011101 11 100 1101010 1010101 01011 010101 0001010 0111 111 10100 1111010 11110100 101101 11110100 1111101 11110100 100110 1110010 11001 11 100 1101010 11110100 101101 11110100 1111101 11110100 100110 1110010 11 01011 010101 0001010 0111 11111110 011111 1100010 011101 11110100 101101 11110100 1111101 11110100 100110 1110010 11 11 100 1110 1011101 11 100 1101010 1010101 111 101001101 111 011010101 111 1101 01101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 65
- 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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word those at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word savor at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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