This is an analysis of the poem Today And Not Yesterday that begins with:
It's not difficult to keep,
One or two steps ahead......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcXXXb Abdeddb bbbfffec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110001 111101 0101001 01 1100101101010 101010101001 1010111100 0110001 111011010 111101000100 10000010 101000100100100 10101010 101010010111010 0110001101010 11010 001011100010 11001101101 1111011001 100111101 0010011001100 1101110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word it's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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