This is an analysis of the poem What Lessons Can I Promise To Learn? that begins with:
I shy away from advising with advice to give,
To anyone....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCC cdXaefa Xadbg ABCCbeXfgggc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,5,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101001000101 0100 1111010 010111011 11011101101 111110 11110011 000111101 1011100100 111100101 011101011001 11110111111101 1011101101001 1010111001 110111001 0100100110100 1101001000101 0100 1111010 010111011 11110100 10101010101010 01001110101 110111101101 1010010100010 110100001 0111101000
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 27
- 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, i, say are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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