This is an analysis of the poem After Passing The Examination that begins with:
For ten years I never left my books;
I went up ... and won unmerited praise....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabcXXcXbaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110110111 1111110001 11111111 01011001111 101011101 1111110101 11010100101 11111101 101101010 10110011 1010010111 10011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 490
- Average number of words per stanza: 97
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i, of are repeated.
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