This is an analysis of the poem Some Choose To Receive Willfully that begins with:
If knowingly one stands in the rain...
One should prepare to acknowledge, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXa XaXX aabba XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,5,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 010011001 11010010 01011 11010 10101010 001010 1001 10010100 10100101010 11111010 010110110 10100101 11001100 101110100010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; one, to are repeated.
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