This is an analysis of the poem To Unlock And To Knock Out that begins with:
Who really...
Has the key....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaXcaBD EDD FDD ABD gDDgDDbC EDD FDDXABDCCC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,3,3,3,8,3,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110 101 1110 01010000 1101 01010101110 101 0101010111001 1110111 11001 101110101101 01011111 11001 10101110101101 01110 101 0101010111001 1111111110 1001 01001 11111111110 1001 01001 11101 0011011101001 1110111 11001 101110101101 01011111 11001 10101110101101 01110 101 0101010111001 0011011 0011011 0011011101001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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, out 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 out is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word relief at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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