This is an analysis of the poem Selected To Make Decisions that begins with:
So behind the eight ball.
Those that can not see the forest......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCBDEE DDBFB gfadfhXbdX ABCBDEE hfgidX cX DDBFB gicXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,10,7,6,2,5,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011 11111010 11011010011 100110100 11101010 0100001110 10010000100 0110110 110011 001010 00100100 1010001000 11110001 11110101 111011 110001 011111 11101 10011000 01011101 0010001 111011010110 101011 11111010 11011010011 100110100 11101010 0100001110 10010000100 11011111101 11001000101 1111 11111 1000 01111 111001001010 101110 0110110 110011 001010 00100100 1010001000 011010111 111110000 1100100 1010100 110101011010 010100111100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; of is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Selected To Make Decisions;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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