This is an analysis of the poem What Do You Intend To Do? that begins with:
I have finally seen the light.
And the error of my ways....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab XXXX a bX aXXX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,1,2,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11100101 1010011 10000 1111101 110010011 1100 111010 1111011100 11101011 11110111 1111001101001 01110000110101 1101110000010 100111 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 80
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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