This is an analysis of the poem Teach Me How To Fly that begins with:
It's never to late to open the gate.
'Teach me....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBXcXX XAdcBBXABX AAE bX AAE BBX adXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,10,3,2,3,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100101001 11 11 1010110101 110111 1111110 1111101 0101101001 1011111 1110110101 11 11 11101 0101101001 11 1101 10101101011 101010101001 10101010001 11111011 0101011011 10101101011 101010101001 10101010001 11 11 11101 11 01101010 101010 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 31
- 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; to, you're, one, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words teach, you're are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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