This is an analysis of the poem How It's Done that begins with:

Bold-faced ranger
(Perfect stranger)... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabccbbbdeedffffAXXfAX bbdbbdgXbggbhhbbiibbii bbdbbdffbjjbjjXdiihhii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,22,22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110 0110 11101110 1010 1110 10101010 1010 1010 01101010 1011 1111 10101010 11101010 10111010 10111010 00101010 10011100 111111110 10110000 10101010 10011100 111111110 1110 1110 10001010 1010 0010 10001010 1010 1000 10101010 1010 0010 11111010 10101010 10101110 00101010 11111010 1111101 1000101 10101110 11001010 1010101 1000101 0010 1110 10100011 1010 0010 11100111 1010 1010 11101000 1010 1010 101001000 00101010 10101010 1000101000 10101010 1110101 1010011 10101010 10101010 1011101 1010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 576
  • Average number of words per stanza: 92
  • Amount of lines: 66
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).

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  • summary of How It's Done;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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