This is an analysis of the poem Until That Momentum Slows that begins with:
It's difficult to drop to stop,
What's out of control....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABBAC dXefd Xgf ABBAC HFHGHFF HFHGHFFcFcC FFcC eFeFIFEXeFeFIFEe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,3,5,7,11,4,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01000101 11001 10111 0111001 1111 1101 10101001 001011011101 00111010 11101 110101010101 1 100110010111 01000101 11001 10111 0111001 1111 001 010010 001 01001 001 001110 0110101 001 010010 001 01001 001 001110 0110101 1 1000100100111 1 101011110101 0110101 1000100100111 1 101011110101 1 010101 101 010101 101 010101 1011101 1 010101 101 010101 101 010101 1011101 1
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same words it, pray at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word load at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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