This is an analysis of the poem You Yield To The Wrong Way that begins with:

Your mind has been scattered away,
With......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbCD AbCDceX AbCDFGAga AbCD AbCDFGAXea
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,9,4,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101001 0 11010 1011010 11101001 0 11010 1011010 1111101 110111 1101110 11101001 0 11010 1011010 110011 11 1110011 1110101 11001 11101001 0 11010 1011010 11101001 0 11010 1011010 110011 11 1110011 1111111 01110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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.

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