This is an analysis of the poem I'D Rather Be A Failure that begins with:
I'd rather be a failure than the man who's never tried;
I'd rather seek the mountain-top than always stand aside....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff ccgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000101011101 11010101111101 111111011111001 11111111110101 01010101111101 11010101110001 11010101110101 110101001010101 11111101010111 110101010101001 11010101110101 11010100010101 11010111010101 11110111110101 111001001111111 11110111011100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, they, to, never, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i'd, they are repeated.
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- summary of I'D Rather Be A Failure;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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