This is an analysis of the poem Twice Becomes A Habit that begins with:
Doing what we please.
With the selling of our embellishments....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcbddc EF ffcgg beecXfc EF afXeaaae EF caehhhafg cfeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,2,5,7,2,8,2,9,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111 0010011000 11101100 1010001 11111000 0100100 110111 100100001 0010101010 01010101 1110101010 1010010 010100100 1111010 110101100010 11010100 010100011 01100110 10101011 11010010 0111 0101 0010101010 01010101 11110101010 1010010 01010101101010 101011 100011111 101001010 101001001 111011111 0010101010 01010101 10101010 0011010 1010001010 11100101 10110101010 1110010 11110100101 1001 10010 101 11110111 11011 111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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- summary of Twice Becomes A Habit;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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