This is an analysis of the poem That One Hat that begins with:
The best advice I refused to take,
Was to choose one pursuit....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdefg adXhhbiie gXje hhebhgghX dbe XdgdX kk ajjgfhiX c XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,4,9,3,5,2,8,1,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010110101 101101 110110 00101011 101001001 00101011 1001001 110111 11111 01001011101 11010111100 10011101 110010101 0010110110101 001001110001 010011101 110011011010 011 11011111110 0100101 0010101101011100 1010 0100110110001 11001101101 11001 1110101 11 011 11010111 0110011 1 1111100111 10101101011100 1 1101010110 1 10111010100 111110101 011101 0101 101 1101001100 1010001 11111 11001011001 111101 1111011111 111101011110 110 1110110111 010001010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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, of, i, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines uh is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word years at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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