This is an analysis of the poem Resolutions that begins with:
Each New Year's Eve I used to brood
On my misdoings of the past,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXabaX bcbcdede afafcccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 1110001 111011010 110101010 10100111 011101000 1011011011 10110 00111101 10100101 11010101 11011101 01010101 110111110 11110101 110 11110111 010100011 11100101 01011111 10011101 010100011 11011001 101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your is repeated.
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- central theme;
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