This is an analysis of the poem For The One Who Would Not Take His Life In His Hands that begins with:
Athlete, virtuoso,
Training for happiness,...
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabaccdc dcbcaeaXe edfXefgggXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010 101100 111111 010101 1101001 01001 0101010 1100001 0111010 10011 10111 110101 101100 111101 0100111 101101001 00101011 1011001 0100101 1111001 10100 1101101 010001 1100111 011111 110101 111111 101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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