This is an analysis of the poem Possibilities that begins with:

I prefer movies.
I prefer cats....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXXcbddeafbaaaaXbecXaagaaaXaXcbgacdfe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110 1011 1010101010 1011001000 101111010 0111011 101100101111101 1010101 1011001 1100011101 101010 1010110 1011001001101 10101111010 1010010001010 000100011010 1011101101010100 11010101001 101100 110110 10110100010101 10101010 10110010010 1011011010 10101010001010 101110100110110 10110110010011 101101001 101111111 10111 1011011110101 0101110101 10110101 011101010 1010101100101 1010111 101101111011 101100110010100 101010110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1462
  • Average number of words per stanza: 259
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; i, prefer, to are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of Possibilities;
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