This is an analysis of the poem Seductive Yet Unproductive that begins with:
Seductive yet unproductive,
Come those temptations to touch....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCD ABCD EAAAFA EAAAFA GeAGeAG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,6,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011010 1101001 11111010 011101 01011010 1101001 11111010 011101 1111011101 01011010 111110101 01011010 1110111110100010 01011010 1111011101 01011010 111110101 01011010 1110111110100010 01011010 1110111111101 010 01011010 1110111111101 010 01011010 1110111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, we are repeated.
The author used the same words seductive, but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words up, unproductive at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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