This is an analysis of the poem Habits that begins with:
I haven't written a poem in so long
I may have forgotten how ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXcbXd XeXXdX eXXaXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010010011 1110101 0110010 011001 11011 1101 01001011100 0101 111010 01111 110101 0101110101 110101 1101 01111 111110 1111111101 1111100 110101 1101111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, or, and are repeated.
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- summary of Habits;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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