This is an analysis of the poem Take Your Life Off Pause that begins with:
If you hesitate to bake it,
You or anyone will get to taste the cake....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaCAAc DdDXb ABAADcD CAAa DAcDa DAcDa DAcDaXABAADcD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,7,4,5,5,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101010 11100010101 101001010 10010100101 10101111010 11010001 01100010 10010110 11111 011101001 11111 101110 1001010001 11111110 111111111 111111110 111111111 11111 1 01011101 10101111010 11010001 01100010 1000111 11111 1110 1 11111 10101 11111 1110 1 11111 1111 11111 1110 1 11111 1011001 11111110 111111111 111111110 111111111 11111 1 01011101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; you, to, your, life, pause, off, take are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word take is repeated.
The author used the same word take at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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