This is an analysis of the poem Whatever Works that begins with:
I choose to make decisions and stick to them.
It isn't easy to do it......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXX Xacd dcbXe fegfXXXgeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101100 00010010 11011 10001011001 1001110 10110011101 111001010 011110001011 111010001101 100010101000101 1100011010101 101111101 0011101 01111011100 1001101 1010110010011 110111010 10011100111 111010101101 110111 1 11
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- 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, be are repeated.
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- summary of Whatever Works;
- central theme;
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