This is an analysis of the poem Strict And Sticking To A Discipline that begins with:
Strict and sticking to a discipline,
I knew......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCB AdED FDDFDD ABCBFDb AgAGAHH AgAGAHH ABCB AdED FDDFDD ABDCBXABDChbcB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,7,7,7,4,4,6,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111000100 11 01010 11111 111000100 101 0010 011111 11 110101001 0101010011 11 110101001 0101110101 111000100 11 01010 11111 11 110101001 111010101 111000100 100 111000100 111 111000100 101 101010011 111000100 100 111000100 111 111000100 101 101010011 111000100 11 01010 11111 111000100 101 0010 011111 11 110101001 0101010011 11 110101001 0101110101 111000100 11 011101 01010 11111 111000100 11 011101 01010 1 1111 101010 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 62
- 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:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to are repeated.
The author used the same word strict at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words not, through at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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