This is an analysis of the poem To Search For The Right Words that begins with:
For me...
The writing of poetry has never come easily....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCC defe ggfd gdeX hXXX h fecX i ddgX gfaX XagX ABCC XefX iX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,1,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 01001001101100 0100001011010 0110101100 1100100010 11010001011001 0101011101 1110111011 0110111010101 1001100011000100 110110001101 11000110010011 1010100001101101 11100100101011 1101010001011 0101001001001 1000010 101110110 10110011010 11100001100 10 11 10100110101 1111110100 00110110101 1 110111 01011000010 100010 010101110011000 1101110 1111111111 1110101101 01100001110 10 11111 1101 10010110101 11 01001001101100 0100001011010 0110101100 111 01110110011 00100011 000100101010110 1 11
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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, that, for, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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