This is an analysis of the poem To A Young Poet that begins with:
Don't believe our outlines, forget them
and begin from your own words....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd bbc ebf dgdd ff feh gi ja Xhh idag he ac fkl Xgi eemh n mno bm dacaja dbcb pmbbX een o lpdk n mdXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,3,4,2,3,2,2,3,4,2,2,3,3,4,1,3,2,6,4,5,3,1,4,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111010 1010111 10110101100 10110 0111110101010011 100111 0010100 11100111 1111100 11110011 1011100 0011 1011100 001001 0110100010 10010 011010010 00111 101001 101011111111 0010111111001 011001111 111001 1111110101 1111110101 10110101101 1110101 00100010 110110010 010001110 1101001 110111101 010001001 010010001010 0100110001 1010110110 01010010 10111010100101 1110101111 100011111 110010111 11111 0100011111 01111001 1010111101001 111101100 110100100010 00101010 1010100001010 011001001 0100101000101 01010 011011110 1111010 11111010 11101100011 01011110101 11110110 10100111010010 1011010 11111101011 1100110111 101101 10010100 001010 111011 011010010101 110010101100 0111101000001010 11111010 110101011 11011001 1010001011 0100110010101101 1010100100 1010100010 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; our, your, with, you, and, wisdom, when, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, a, when, no are repeated.
The author used the same words if, you, don't at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines falcon, me are repeated).
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