This is an analysis of the poem Reasons to Survive November that begins with:

November like a train wreck -
as if a locomotive made of cold...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcde dfgd cXb XXh Xff aXXe gheXehfed
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,3,3,3,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 0101011 1001010101 11010100 11000101 10011001110 0100111 1101101010111 1011010110010 1010011 11011010010 010010101 110100101 111111011 111101011 001111 0011010101 011111110 1010101 1111101 00101101 1010111 110100110 11100110 1111101 0011110110 111110110 11100101 111101 10110 000101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Reasons to Survive November;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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