This is an analysis of the poem Success that begins with:
If you want a thing bad enough
To go out and fight for it,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbbabbbbbbbbbXXXbccbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101101 0111110 111110 111111111110 01001000 111101 1001000 1111101101110 011110110010 111111110010 0101110 110 110 11110011110 011011011111 0110100 111000 111100110000 010110010011 11011 01011 11101001111 01111011010 110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 801
- Average number of words per stanza: 160
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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, for, your, it, you are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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- summary of Success;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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